Sleepless, Charlie Huston
Sleepless, Charlie Huston
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Sleepless

Author: Charlie Huston

Narrator: Ray Porter and Mark Bramhall

Unabridged: 13 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/12/2010


Synopsis

The world is in the grip of an epidemic of sleeplessness and one man will risk everything to find out what caused it. In his signature style of fastpaced action, outrageous violence, and graphically described scenes, we are tossed into a dramatic turbulence unlike anything youve ever read.Every day, more and more people have been found to have contracted the illness they simply can not sleep. The illness arrives slowly, usually revealing itself in a stiff neck. Then it blooms, keeping one from sleeping altogether, eating away at one's mind, birthing panic and confusion until, finally, one enters into the last few months before death, known as the suffering. Similarly, the disease took hold of the globe slowly and now has infected one in every ten people.In Los Angeles, a straight arrow cop named Parker T. Haas is posing as a drug dealer, working undercover to prevent the black market trade of a drug known as Dreamer, a drug known to be the only thing that offers relief to people who are sleepless. He only knows so much about the drug itself: It is manufactured by pharmaceutical giant AfronzoNew Day; it is in small supply; it is in impossibly high demand. But in his darker moments he admits to himself that his interest in the drug goes beyond the professional. His wife, Rose, has been sleepless for months, and they haven't yet found the courage to find out if their infant daughter is also sick. With Rose unwell and behaving erratically, Park's long hours are weighing on him, but The world is in the grip of an epidemic of sleeplessness and one man will risk everything to find out what caused it. In his signature style of fastpaced action, outrageous violence, and graphically described scenes, we are tossed into a dramatic turbulence unlike anything youve ever read. Every day, more and more people have been found to have contracted the illnessthey simply cannot sleep. The illness arrives slowly, usually revealing itself in a stiff neck. Then it blooms, keeping one from sleeping altogether, eating away at one's mind, birthing panic and confusion until, finally, one enters into the last few months before death, known as the suffering. Similarly, the disease took hold of the globe slowly and now has infected one in every ten people. In Los Angeles, a straight arrow cop named Parker T. Haas is posing as a drug dealer, working undercover to prevent the black market trade of a drug known as Dreamer, a drug known to be the only thing that offers relief to people who are sleepless. He only knows so much about the drug itself: It is manufactured by pharmaceutical giant AfronzoNew Day; it is in small supply; it is in impossibly high demand. But in his darker moments he admits to himself that his interest in the drug goes beyond the professional. His wife, Rose, has been sleepless for months, and they haven't yet found the courage to find out if their infant daughter is also sick. With Rose unwell and behaving erratically, Park's long hours are weighing on him, but he feels like he's on the cusp of learning something crucial. He feels like he's a few steps away from making the world a better place. So he presses on. he feels like he's on the cusp of learning something crucial. He feels like he's a few steps away from making the world a better place. So he presses on.

About Charlie Huston

Charlie Huston is the author of Sleepless, the bestsellers The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death and The Shotgun Rule, the Henry Thompson trilogy, the Joe Pitt casebooks, and several titles for Marvel Comics. He lives with his family in Los Angeles.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Kemper on February 13, 2010

I have good news, and I have better news. The good news is that Charlie Huston has finally started using quotation marks instead of the annoying and confusing dashes before dialogue. Granted, he still isn’t using ‘he said’ or ‘she asked’, but progress is progress. The better news is that Huston has w......more

Goodreads review by Robert on December 25, 2010

Charlie Huston, Sleepless (Ballantine, 2010) I started three books on the same day, two Vine books and a third I'd bought with birthday money. I figured Sleepless would probably be the one that would get relegated to the back of the line, as I knew nothing about Charlie Huston save that The Mystical......more

Goodreads review by Katy on November 26, 2012

Disclosure: This was a book I received through the Amazon Vine program which I read in 2009. All opinions are my own. Synopsis: What former philosophy student Parker Hass wanted was a better world. A world both just and safe for his wife and infant daughter. So he joined the LAPD and tried to make it......more

Goodreads review by Marvin on May 27, 2013

Charlie Huston has flexed his Crime Noir muscles and punches them into this gritty dystopic tale of a world with an epidemic of sleeplessness. Before you assume that sounds a bit lame, be aware that there is a real disease called Fatal familial insomnia (FFI) that is always fatal and very painful. F......more

Goodreads review by Adam on December 30, 2010

Sleepless is a mix of zombie movie,a future is now(actually an alternate present), a hard boiled thriller, and strangely a meditation on a family. This is written in a more convoluted style than Mr. Huston usually stripped down style for a couple reasons I suspect, mainly his use of invented author......more