Rat, once considered a genius among rats, has escaped from his comfortable cage in the martingale Institute. He has taken refuge in the Hamblington Public Baths where he meets a homeless boy called Dylan. When Dylan campaigns to save the Baths from closure the resourceful Rat is never far away. On the hostile streets of Hamblington he has learnt a thing or two about rats and men.
- ISBN10 0099612011
- ISBN13 9780099612018
- Publish Date 4 November 1999 (first published 7 December 1995)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 10 April 2014
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Penguin Random House Children's UK
- Imprint Red Fox
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 192
- Language English