Praying for Sleep

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After a few iiiiiiiitcs the panic became a stinging nieinory then a dark thought and then was nearli/ forgotten. Hrubek rose to his full six-foot, four-inch height and stood bald and blue as a Druid. He snatched up a handful of grass and wiped his mouth and chin. He studied the geography around him. The road was in the middle of a deep valley; bony ridges of rock rose up on either side of the wide asphalt. Behind him in the west -where the hearse had come from - the hospital was lost in darkness many miles away. Ahead lay the distant lights of houses.
Like an aninml released from his captors, he circled in an awkward, cautious lope, uncertain ofzuhich direction to take.
Then, like an animal finding a scent, he turned toward the lights in the east ami began to run, with an ominous grace and at a great speed.
Michael Hrubek, a young paranoid schizophrenic, has escaped from a New England hospital for the criminally insane. He is making his way unerringly toward Lis Atcheson, the... Tovább

Fülszöveg

After a few iiiiiiiitcs the panic became a stinging nieinory then a dark thought and then was nearli/ forgotten. Hrubek rose to his full six-foot, four-inch height and stood bald and blue as a Druid. He snatched up a handful of grass and wiped his mouth and chin. He studied the geography around him. The road was in the middle of a deep valley; bony ridges of rock rose up on either side of the wide asphalt. Behind him in the west -where the hearse had come from - the hospital was lost in darkness many miles away. Ahead lay the distant lights of houses.
Like an aninml released from his captors, he circled in an awkward, cautious lope, uncertain ofzuhich direction to take.
Then, like an animal finding a scent, he turned toward the lights in the east ami began to run, with an ominous grace and at a great speed.
Michael Hrubek, a young paranoid schizophrenic, has escaped from a New England hospital for the criminally insane. He is making his way unerringly toward Lis Atcheson, the high-school teacher who testified at his murder trial.
Four people race to intercept him before he reaches her. A professional tracker who desperately needs the reward money. A hospital director whose job is on the line. Hrubek's psychiatrist, whose own secrets are jeopardised by his escape. And Lis's own husband, who must kill Hrubek before the madman reaches his wife.
But Michael's mind - with its delusions of murder and betrayal further distorted by his treatment at the hospital - is crystal clear about one thing. He knows Lis better than she knows herself, and as he stalks her, he carries with him a monstrous secret that will tear apart many lives during the course of this single, horrifying night.
A major work of terror, taut and intricate, subtle and original, PRAYING FOR SLEEP is a novel of excruciating suspense and dark psychological detail. Vissza