Sleepless
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Charlie Huston is the author of the Henry Thompson trilogy, the Joe Pitt casebooks, and the bestsellers THE SHOTGUN RULE and THE MYSTIC ARTS OF ERASING ALL SIGNS OF DEATH. He lives with his family in Los Angeles.

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'A classic noir crime thriller...its depiction of a world in decline is chillingly well realised.' SCI FI NOW 'Huston's LA-based pulp noir style offers plenty of thrills ... Huston paints his dystopian nightmare in vivid colours and with great pace.' BIG ISSUE IN THE NORTH 'Huston mizes equal parts Chandler, Ross Macdonald, PK Dick and Willaim Burroughs to create a fraught and terse narrative, written in punchy and elegant prose.' CATHOLIC HERALD 'Those who like their science fiction with a twist of mystery should look no further' SUNDAY BUSINESS POST

Edgar Award nominee Huston's (www.pulpnoir.com) third stand-alone novel follows The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death (2009), also available from Blackstone Audio. In it, an epidemic of terminal sleeplessness hits the world, and society slides ominously toward doomsday. Enter undercover police officer Parker T. Haas, tasked with tracking down an illicit drug that will offer relief to the sleepless, as well as aging assassin Jasper, who seeks information on a paramilitary contractor. Though talented actors/narrators Mark Bramhall (Naked Lunch) and Ray Porter (Tearing Down the Wall of Sound) do their best to alleviate the confusion caused by the constantly shifting viewpoints, this ambitious endeavor ultimately falls short: the tale is complicated, the characters are shallow, and the many lengthy descriptions detract from its successful telling. Recommended only for those libraries where Huston has a following. [See Prepub Alert, LJ 9/1/09.-Ed.]-Denise A. Garofalo, Mount Saint Mary Coll. Lib., Newburgh, NY Copyright 2010 Reed Business Information.

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