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Killer Dreams

Killer Dreams, June 2006
by Iris Johansen

Bantam
Featuring: Sophie Dunston; Matt Royd
352 pages
ISBN: 0553803441
Hardcover
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"Frighteningly realistic thriller written by one of the best."

Fresh Fiction Review

Killer Dreams
Iris Johansen

Reviewed by Paula Myers
Posted May 16, 2006

Mystery Woman Sleuth | Thriller Psychological | Romance Suspense

Sleep therapist Sophie Dunston has been living a nightmare since witnessing her father attempt to kill her entire family. Recovered physically from her wounds, she devotes her life to protecting her son and to destroying Sanborne, the man responsible for turning her life's work, REM-4, into a weapon.

Matt Royd has his own reasons for going after Sanborne. Used as a guinea pig in the REM-4 studies, he's struggled to overcome the mind-altering effects of the drug Sophie helped to create. Believing Sophie to be his connection to Sanborne, Royd is willing to risk everything to bring Sanborne's evil to an end.

Sending her son to Scotland and into the protection of MacDuff and Jane MacGuire, Sophie joins forces with Royd. Their quest takes them to a small island, where they must battle stone-cold assassins to save the locals from a poisoned water supply and nightmare existence.

Johansen has created a taut thriller in KILLER DREAMS. The premise of this story is frighteningly realistic. Sophie and Royd are tough, driven, sympathetic characters, and Sanborne and his cronies are chillingly heartless. Fans of Johansen are going to love her latest thriller and will enjoy the connection to past characters and storylines.

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SUMMARY

If you close your eyes, he’ll get you. Sophie Dunston knows all too well how dreams can kill. As one of the nation’s top sleep therapists, she specializes in the life- threatening night terrors that her ten-year-old son, Michael, suffers from. But she is also an expert in another kind of terror --the kind that can turn a dream life into a living nightmare in the blink of an eye.

Someone is watching. He’s a shadowy figure from out of her darkest fears and he hasn’t forgotten her. In one shocking moment of violence, he’d shattered Sophie’s world forever and left her with only one thing to live for: her son. But the nightmare isn’t over for Sophie Dunston. It’s just begun. He’s been waiting. Sophie was supposed to die the first time around, but fate intervened. This time he’ll make sure that not even a miracle will save her.

It wasn’t a miracle that saved Jock Gavin, but it was pretty close. A semiretired hit man, commando, and jack-of- all-deadly-trades, he knows what Sophie is up against -- and that she’ll need help. But the man he’s chosen for the job is as unpredictable as he is dangerous. Matt Royd is a wild card-hard, cool, merciless -- and putting him into play changes the game completely. But to whose advantage?

Sophie will soon find out. She will have to trust Royd because she has no choices left. Because the bogeyman haunting her dreams is all too real and he’s on the hunt again. Because the nightmare he’s got planned for Sophie won’t end when she wakes up screaming. It won’t end. Ever.


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