"If you never fear the dark before, you will now..." - it is the sentence which you can notice while observing the cover
of the "
Killer Dreams" book. Nothing more erroneous. I guess Iris Johansen, the author has mistaken the genre. It is an action-packed thriller for the masses - light reading, not the glorifyable masterpiece of Lovecraft or Derleth, which can keep your body tensed alongside with your flesh creeped.Sophie Dunston, a sleep theraphist and researcher, specializes in life - threatening night terrors. She invents a new drug called REM-4 to help insomniacs including her little boy - Michael. How it turns out later on, the Sophie's coworker named Sanborne discovers a distinct (actually entirely contrary) usage of this medication. It is able to modify patient's behaviour in a way to generate an army of obedient and dutiful, zombie-like top notch killers. What is the worst is the fact that Sophie's father will be the first to experience it. Now brave heroine has to eliminate Sanborne, before he eliminates her.I can barely catch sight of anything unique or unprecedented in this consecutive and identical novel of Mrs Johansen. Despite of all the fame she posses in America, I am obliged to conclude I am not particularly astonished by her style, subjects of her work and left theaggregate. Still...It is readable. All in all if you are a demanding, deeply intensified reader, leave it on the dusty shelve, if you look for an easy reading while lying and sunbathing on the beach, you can try it.