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The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Countdown returns with a knock-out suspense thriller that pits a mother and son against a killer who's the stuff of nightmares.
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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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.
From the Hardcover edition.
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen is back bringing all her trademark suspense, romance, and surprising plot twists. With Killer Dreams she blends fear exacerbated by terrifying nightmares plus a psychotic killer on the loose and on the prowl.
Sophie Dunston is one of the nations best known sleep therapists. Her specialty? Night terrors, the fears that ravage her ten-year-old son Michael. Perhaps rightly so because Michael has witnessed a horror that most of us cannot even imagine. He saw his grandfather kill his grandmother with a single shot in the head and then try to kill him. This behavior, so unlike Sophie's father was due to REM-4, a chemical originally invented by Sophie who had no knowledge that it would turn normal people into zombie-like killers.
Now, after all the tragedy she has endured one of these killers is after her. She will do anything to protect Michael, even accepting the help of Matt Royd, a recovered REM-4 victim. It will come as no surprise to Johansen readers that at first Sophie detests Matt but soon has a change of heart.
The real question is how to stop the diabolical killer who is after Sophie for her research and her life.
There's plenty of action and tension galore as Sophie and Matt try to outwit one of the scariest characters in thrillerdom.
- Gail Cooke
Sophie Dunston is one of the nations best known sleep therapists. Her specialty? Night terrors, the fears that ravage her ten-year-old son Michael. Perhaps rightly so because Michael has witnessed a horror that most of us cannot even imagine. He saw his grandfather kill his grandmother with a single shot in the head and then try to kill him. This behavior, so unlike Sophie's father was due to REM-4, a chemical originally invented by Sophie who had no knowledge that it would turn normal people into zombie-like killers.
Now, after all the tragedy she has endured one of these killers is after her. She will do anything to protect Michael, even accepting the help of Matt Royd, a recovered REM-4 victim. It will come as no surprise to Johansen readers that at first Sophie detests Matt but soon has a change of heart.
The real question is how to stop the diabolical killer who is after Sophie for her research and her life.
There's plenty of action and tension galore as Sophie and Matt try to outwit one of the scariest characters in thrillerdom.
- Gail Cooke
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30 of 32 people found the following review helpful
painful
22 Jun 2006
Format:Hardcover
Silly plot, inane dialogue (characters said "The hell I will" at least 7 times in one chapter alone), cardboard characters.... Three chapters and I couldn't take it anymore. Johansen is capable of much better than Killer Dreams. The Search, about search and rescue workers and their dogs, was terrific.
48 of 55 people found the following review helpful
Fun plots, terrible writing
20 Jun 2006
Format:Hardcover
I have read more Iris Johansen novels than I like to admit (I stopped counting at around 20), but they are getting worse. Her plots are fun, and her creativity in weaving characters and storylines throughout different books is impressive, but her writing itself is just not very good. Much of it could be fixed by a good editor.
All of her characters' dialogue is prissy and old-fashioned--as I imagine Ms. Johansen's own speech is. Every character's speech is littered with "Good heavens"es, "what the devil"s, and, my personal (least) favorite, "dammit," thrown in where there is no need, but where Ms. Johansen thinks the character should sound "tough." In any basic fiction writing class, one learns that every character does not speak the same, and that means not using the same "curse" words and manner of cursing. One other funny Johansenism is "He muttered an oath under his breath." I wonder what the oath was. Did he swear to love, cherish, and honor her 'til death parted them or perhaps first to do no harm? I know what she meant, but it amused me just the same. Couldn't she just say "he swore under his breath"?
Another issue is the basic formula of Johansen's novels: Strong woman is in difficult situation that she cannot handle alone for the first time in her life. Strong woman must learn to trust renegade strong man who is tough and cannot show tenderness. Strong woman and strong man clash in their mutual quest to destroy evil. Strong man and women have deep sexual attraction, dammit. Strong woman and man give in to their carnal urges. Strong woman and man vanquish the evil foe and go back to their separate lives. Strong woman and man realize they love each other and cannot be apart. The end.
The last issue is the men's names. I had to stop reading the last novel because I couldn't take seriously a character called "Silver." Is he a horse? Hi ho! "Royd" is an AWFUL name, by the way. I alternately think of hemorrhoids or steroids. Most people do not call each other by their last names, even men. Some men do, but not all the time, and women most likely wouldn't call all men by their last names. Of course, then even the characters' FIRST names are awful: JOCK?!? What the devil kind of Scottish name is that? Why doesn't she call him "Gavin"? Inconsistent. Oh, if you could hear the oath I am muttering under my breath.
The more I notice the bad writing, the more difficult it is for me to read her books. This is the last of her books I think I will read.
All of her characters' dialogue is prissy and old-fashioned--as I imagine Ms. Johansen's own speech is. Every character's speech is littered with "Good heavens"es, "what the devil"s, and, my personal (least) favorite, "dammit," thrown in where there is no need, but where Ms. Johansen thinks the character should sound "tough." In any basic fiction writing class, one learns that every character does not speak the same, and that means not using the same "curse" words and manner of cursing. One other funny Johansenism is "He muttered an oath under his breath." I wonder what the oath was. Did he swear to love, cherish, and honor her 'til death parted them or perhaps first to do no harm? I know what she meant, but it amused me just the same. Couldn't she just say "he swore under his breath"?
Another issue is the basic formula of Johansen's novels: Strong woman is in difficult situation that she cannot handle alone for the first time in her life. Strong woman must learn to trust renegade strong man who is tough and cannot show tenderness. Strong woman and strong man clash in their mutual quest to destroy evil. Strong man and women have deep sexual attraction, dammit. Strong woman and man give in to their carnal urges. Strong woman and man vanquish the evil foe and go back to their separate lives. Strong woman and man realize they love each other and cannot be apart. The end.
The last issue is the men's names. I had to stop reading the last novel because I couldn't take seriously a character called "Silver." Is he a horse? Hi ho! "Royd" is an AWFUL name, by the way. I alternately think of hemorrhoids or steroids. Most people do not call each other by their last names, even men. Some men do, but not all the time, and women most likely wouldn't call all men by their last names. Of course, then even the characters' FIRST names are awful: JOCK?!? What the devil kind of Scottish name is that? Why doesn't she call him "Gavin"? Inconsistent. Oh, if you could hear the oath I am muttering under my breath.
The more I notice the bad writing, the more difficult it is for me to read her books. This is the last of her books I think I will read.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
ugggh
7 Sep 2006
Format:Hardcover
I've read every one of Iris Johansen's "suspense" novels and have loved most of them. The last couple though have been so painful to get through. This one however, I don't think I can even finish. I read where someone called these characters "cardboard," and I couldn't agree more. The female heroine randomly throws in curse words in a cheap attempt to create tension between herself and the supposed male protagonist. Whereas in the Eve Duncan Books and the Wind Dancer books we are drawn into the story and come to care for the characters, it is patently obvious what will happen with each of these characters - makes me think of a writing 101 class. "Now this should happen here, and this here, and this here and boom, climax, happily every after."
I hope that Iris can get her groove back and begin writing novels worth my time.
I hope that Iris can get her groove back and begin writing novels worth my time.
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