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The Waking (Paperback)

by T.M. Jenkins (Author)
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  • Paperback: 400 pages
  • Publisher: Pan Books; New edition edition (3 Aug 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0330440322
  • ISBN-13: 978-0330440325
  • Product Dimensions: 17.6 x 11 x 3.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 41,972 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Daily Mail, April 28th, 2006
'T.M. Jenkins has written a cracking first novel which is an interesting amalgam of science fiction, political intrigue and crime' --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Peter James, Author
'A startling, original novel. A provocative, credible story that grips, fascinates and disturbs right to the very last line. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A fantastic read!, 6 May 2006
By Robin Thomas "read-a-holic" (Pioneertown, CA, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Waking (Hardcover)
Everything we hear about today is GLOBAL WARMING. This book takes a look at what would happen if a person woke up one day and found out that all the predictions we most fear had actually come true. That's the experience a Los Angeles doctor, Nate Sheehan, goes through in this extraordinary book.

Dr. Sheehan is murdered in 2006 and his wife, who is part of the "cryonics" movement, freezes his head so that she can someday be re-united with him. But technology doesn't become available until 2069, when a group of scientists in Phoenix, Arizona bring him back to life and attach his head to a "donor body." The story, one that is amazingly well-researched, deals with all the problems the scientists face in reviving human flesh. It's also a kind of "reincarnation" story (without being metaphysical), as Nate's consciousness reignites.

The authorities don't know about his existence at first - he's flying "under the radar." Then begins a new adventure, that of learning how to use a stranger's body, and how peculiar it is to imagine that the body once belonged to someone else. And then the crushing reality that the world is coping with the arrival of global warming, and not the place that Nate remotely recognizes from his former life as a rich, privileged doctor in turn-of-the-century L.A. With this as a background, he must find out what happened to his beloved wife and family.

This is a fascinating, engrossing story. I loved all the science and recovery part. Once I started reading it I couldn't put it down. It has that Da Vinci Code gallop of pace, which I like in thrillers. And there are some extraordinary things that happen to Nate that I won't say, or I'll reveal too much.

Buy it. Read it. Pass it on to others. This has bestseller written all over it.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Teriffic Thriller!, 5 Sep 2007
By D. Magidoff (London, UK) - See all my reviews
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I love thrillers by Peter James and when I saw that he had personally recommended this book, I was eager to give it a try. Just like he said, I was impressed from the first page, at the speed and pace of this extraordinary thriller. I don't think I've read anything quite like it for some time. It involves a doctor who is shot and killed in the present day. His wife cryonically freezes his head and he's brought back to life towards the end of the century. But he needs a body to complete the operation, so they find one from a dubious source. It's a real tour de force, part medical thriller, part sci fi, part horror. And the docotr goes on an incredible journey, waking up when global warming has got a grip on the world and oil has finally run out. If there's ever a book that we should be reading that captures just what the future is going to look like, The Waking is it. I can't wait to see what T.M. Jenkins is going to do next.
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Superbly done., 7 Aug 2006
By Copy Kitten (JHB, South Africa) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Waking (Hardcover)
I'm not a fan of science fiction. I'm sceptical of novels set in the not-too-distant future, and more sceptical of novels set in the distant future. When I saw that The Waking, a medical thriller, was partly set in `Arizona, 2070', it nearly put me off altogether.

But I'm glad I persevered, because this book is riveting - especially for a sceptic. Not only intelligent, challenging and highly original, TM Jenkins' debut novel is also an utter page-turner.

We're on the brink of a real fuel crisis, with the threat of global warming beating down stronger every day, and The Waking combines our damaged world with Frankenstein's old innovation, cryonic preservation, to take us to a place that is terrifying in its plausibility.

This novel has `bestseller' scrawled all over it, because it is paced like The Da Vinci Code, with research that is just as good and controversy that is just as credible. For me, it goes one better: it is extremely well-written and disturbing down to the very last line.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing
I'm amazed by the good reviews this book has received. Towards the end I couldn't wait to finish it so I could move on to something else. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Eoin Lynch

3.0 out of 5 stars An interesting original read
I hate to give this book only 3 stars after all the other reviewers before me have given it 5 but for me, although I did enjoy it, it never really took hold and gripped me. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars Watch out, Crichton!
An ultra-smart thriller stacked with alarmingly vivid and believable characters - and a plot that never fails to catch you by surprise. Read more
Published 19 months ago by Robert Eagle

5.0 out of 5 stars great read
If you want a book that engages you, and keeps you gripped through to the end, this is it. I loved it.
Published on 26 Jun 2006 by J. Robins

5.0 out of 5 stars rivetting
This book should come with a warning: don't start reading too late at night, because you won't be able to put it down until you've got to the very last page. Read more
Published on 14 Jun 2006 by Frances Craig

5.0 out of 5 stars Be Scared. Be very very scared.
A frightening insight into a world fast becoming all too real. Jenkins takes us into science fiction that is no longer fiction but an unraveling medical, moral nightmare in this... Read more
Published on 12 May 2006 by Dorothy Douglas

5.0 out of 5 stars nothing else
It is rare indeed to find an intelligent and challenging novel that is also a page turner...
I am sure we will hear a lot about who's the next Dan Brown... Read more
Published on 8 May 2006 by S. Crowley

5.0 out of 5 stars Modern-Day Frankenstein
"The Waking" is a real page-turner; I couldn't put this down. A horror-thriller where the protagonist, Nate, is beheaded, and then resuscitated through cryogenics 70 years in... Read more
Published on 8 May 2006 by Cam Przykucki

5.0 out of 5 stars Transatlantic Shocker
This is simply upputdownable; I started reading at Heathrow, became completely engrossed in the Hitchcockesque nightmare and suddenly realised my plane had landed at JFK but... Read more
Published on 5 May 2006 by A. D. Moss

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