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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, hell get you. Sophie Dunston knows all too well how dreams can kill. As one of the nations 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 terrorthe kind that can turn a dream life into a living nightmare in the blink of an eye. Someone is watching. Hes a shadowy figure from out of her darkest fears and he hasnt forgotten her. In one shocking moment of violence, hed shattered Sophies world forever and left her with only one thing to live for: her son. But the nightmare isnt over for Sophie Dunston. Its just begun. Hes been waiting. Sophie was supposed to die the first time around, but fate intervened. This time hell make sure that not even a miracle will save her. It wasnt 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 againstand that shell need help. But the man hes chosen for the job is as unpredictable as he is dangerous. Matt Royd is a wild cardhard, cool, mercilessand 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 hes on the hunt again. Because the nightmare hes got planned for Sophie wont end when she wakes up screaming. It wont end. Ever. From the Hardcover edition. From Publishers Weekly Bestseller Johansen ( On the Run ), in her latest thriller full of heavy-breathing romance, turns to mind-control of the Manchurian candidate variety, a state induced by the chemical REM-4 and mysterious sleep-manipulation methods guaranteed to turn regular folk into killer zombies. It promises to be a lucrative technology, as one of the heroes in the novel predicts: "Mind control is just too tempting not to attract the scumbags of the world." The head scumbag is Robert Sanborne of Sanborne Pharmaceuticals, whose goal is to perfect the REM-4 program so he can sell it to the world's evildoers. The heroine, Sophie Dunston, a leading sleep researcher and the original inventor of REM-4, falls hard for Matt Royd, a former zombie who has come to his senses and is trying to kill Sanborne. Royd and Sophie, forced by circumstances to be allies, begin by hating each other and thenno surprisefall wildly in lust and love. Johansen offers nothing new, but her many fans will overlook a rather improbable premise and be happy with a familiar cast of characters (many from the author's other novels), familiar situations and familiar outcomes. (June) Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. From Booklist In her latest thriller, the prolific, best--selling Johansen, dubbed the queen of suspense, introduces a new heroine, Sophie Dunston, a top-notch sleep researcher who developed a drug to battle the insomnia from which her father and millions of others suffer. But her nefarious former boss and his cohorts have used the drug she created to alter the minds of ordinary people like her father, who killed his wife and threatened Sophie and her young son. With hardened heart, Sophie has one goal: to kill her former boss, since every attempt she's made to expose him to the authorities has failed. Just as she discovers that there are many victims of her nemesis' mind-controlling experiments, one shows up with the same murderous intention. Sophie is leery of Matt Royd, and his first thoughts are to use Sophie, the author of his nightmares, to destroy the others. Brutal and deadly himself, Royd leaves Sophie no choice but to cooperate. The danger increases tenfold as the hunters become the hunted in this suspenseful tale of nightmarish evil. Patty Engelmann Copyright American Library Association. All rights reserved