![]() ![]() And the brilliant and sadistic killer is just as interested in leading Thorne a merry dance as he is in fulfilling his degraded obsessions. or is it? Soon the dogged Thorne (given to distrusting his own abilities) is playing a cat-and-mouse game with a psychopathic killer. This hideous condition, called Locked-in Syndrome is, however, quite possibly the killers first miscalculation. She has undergone a deliberately induced stroke and although all her senses are intact, she is totally unable to move or communicate. The killer who Billinghams protagonist Tom Thorne is up against is a particularly creepy specimen: he has savagely killed three victims but his fourth, although alive, is perhaps not so fortunate. ![]() The blurb on the jacket warns that we are in for a disturbing experience and that is precisely what we get: He doesnt want you alive. ![]() Mark Billingham is such an author, and Sleepy Head is such a book. The The art of inducing fear in a reader via the printed page is a speciality of only a few skilled craftsmen. The art of inducing fear in a reader via the printed page is a speciality of only a few skilled craftsmen. ![]()
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