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Ballantine
January 2010
On Sale: January 12, 2010
368 pages
ISBN: 0345501136
EAN: 9780345501134
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Science Fiction
From bestselling author Charlie Huston comes a novel about
the fears that find us all during dark times and the courage
and sacrifice that can save us in the face of unimaginable
odds. Gripping, unnerving, exhilarating, and haunting,
Sleepless is well worth staying up for. What former philosophy student Parker Hass wanted was a
better world. A world both just and safe for his wife and
infant daughter. So he joined the LAPD and tried to make it
that way. But the world changed. Struck by waves of chaos
carried in on a tide of insomnia. A plague of sleeplessness. Park can sleep, but he is wide awake. And as much as he
wishes he was dreaming, his eyes are open. He has no choice
but to see it all. That's his job. Working undercover as a
drug dealer in a Los Angeles ruled in equal parts by martial
law and insurgency, he's tasked with cutting off illegal
trade in Dreamer, the only drug that can give the infected
what they most crave: sleep. After a year of lost leads and false trails, Park stumbles
into the perilous shadows cast by the pharmaceuticals giant
behind Dreamer. Somewhere in those shadows, at the nexus of
disease and drugs and money, a secret is hiding. Drawn into
the inner circle of a tech guru with a warped agenda and a
special use for the sleepless themselves, Park thinks he
knows what that secret might be.
To know for certain, he will have to go deeper into the
restless world. His wife has become sleepless, and their
daughter may soon share the same fate. For them, he will
risk what they need most from him: his belief that justice
must be served. Unknown to him, his choice ties all of their
futures to the singularly deadly nature of an aging
mercenary who stalks Park. The deeper Park stumbles through the dark, the more he is
convinced that it is obscuring the real world. Bring enough
light and the shadows will retreat. Bring enough light and
everyone will see themselves again. Bring enough light and
he will find his way to the safe corner, the harbor he's
promised his family. Whatever the cost to himself. It is July 2010. The future is coming. Open your eyes.
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