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"The Sleepless"
By Graham Masterton
ISBN: 0-09187-029-1
Graham Masterton is in my opinion one of the best writers of this genre, although not as well known as his colleagues Stephen King and James Herbert, he is highly praised by them, and with good reason. In The Sleepless, Masterton explores the vampire myth, and comes up with a new terrifying concept.
The bodies of a young Supreme Court judge and his wife are found brutally mutilated in the wreckage of a helicopter crash and their young daughter, Sissy, is missing. Michael Reardon is an insurance investigator who is hired to uncover the truth behind the murders. While investigating the deaths Reardon discovers a link between the murders and a string of bizarre murders of young girls. Young girls who were tortured horribly before their deaths, young girls who were all found with two small puncture marks on their backs, just above the pelvis. Unlike the other injuries they have sustained, these puncture marks are almost clinical. When Sissy is found washed up on the shore similarly tortured with the same marks, Reardon is determined to get to the bottom of the killings.
He soon wishes he hadn’t. As the investigation progresses he uncovers a terrifying un-holy conspiracy, and men who never sleep. As Reardon learns more about the sleepless, he uncovers more hidden truths than he had ever imagined and starts to see in himself horrifying similarities between himself and the sleepless ones, could he possibly be one of them?
The Sleepless, delves deep into human myth, history and philosophy and the result is a terrific tale of terror, so vivid you would almost believe it is real. I highly recommend however that you do not read this book with a full stomach as it does have some quite graphic descriptions of not so nice things.
Review by
Amanda Johnstone
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