Sleepwalk

Informationen zum Autor John Saul ’s first novel,  Suffer the Children , was an immediate million-copy bestseller. His other bestselling suspense novels include  Perfect Nightmare , Black Creek Crossing , and  The Presence. He is also the author of the  New York Times  bestselling serial thriller  The Blackstone Chronicles , initially published in six installments but now available in one complete volume. Saul divides his time between Seattle and Hawaii. Klappentext A terrifying new novel by the author of Darkness and Shadows Borrego, New Mexico. A peaceful little desert town. Except for one thing. Somebody here hates teenagers. Hates them. These troublemakers, these rebels, have to be controlled. Silenced. Forever. Now he has discovered an insidious way to strike back at them. In their sleep. In their waking hours. Anytime. He is a madman with terrifying powers. And soon, he will draw Borrego's children beyond the brink of night. . . .Prologue   The woman stood at the blackboard at the front of her classroom, watching her students work on the problem she had laid out a few minutes earlier. Though her eyes flicked constantly over the class, her mind wasn’t registering the images her eyes were feeding to it.   The heat of the day was building, which was good.   The hotter the sun beating down on the roof, the less the joints in her fingers and toes, her hands, her feet—even her arms and legs now—hurt her.   That was some consolation, though not much. At least, although the winter’s cold threatened to make her totally immobile, she still had the summers to look forward to—the dry, desert summers, when the heat would soak into her bones and give her some tiny measure of relief, a slight easing of the pain her disease brought with it, a pain that grew each month, along with the ugly deformities of her misshapen joints.   She was supposed to be better now. The doctor had promised her the new treatment would work.   No, that wasn’t actually true, she reminded herself. He’d said he hoped it would work; he hadn’t promised her anything   She gritted her teeth, and denied herself even the brief solace of a sigh as a sharp pain shot up from her left ring finger.   Her instinct was to rub the painful finger, but that would only make her right hand hurt more, and already she was barely able to hold the chalk as she carried on her class.   Against her will, her eyes traveled to the clock.   Ten more minutes and the noon bell would ring. Another day of summer school would be over.   She could make it.     In the fourth row of the classroom the boy stared once more at the problem he’d copied onto the paper on his desk, and quickly computed the solution in his mind. It was right, he was certain, but even if it wasn’t, he didn’t care.   He put his pencil down and let his gaze wander to the window, where the heat was making the mesa shimmer in the distance.   That was where he should be today—hiking up on top of the mesa or in the cool of the canyon, swimming in one of the deep holes the river had cut from the canyon’s floor, working the anger out of his system with physical exercise. He’d had another fight with his father that morning, and the last thing he’d wanted to do was go from the oppressiveness of his home to that of the school.   Perhaps he should just get up and walk out.   He tried to put the tempting thought out of his mind.   He had agreed to go to school this summer, and he would.   But it would be the last summer.   Indeed, these few weeks of school might be the last ever.   He looked up at the clock and sucked in his breath.   Nine more minutes.   Then, as he watched the second hand jerk slowly around the face of the clock, he had a sudd...

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: John Saul, Saul John
• Editore: Bantam Books USA
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.11.1990
• EAN: 9780553288346
• ISBN: 978-0-553-28834-6
• Pagine: 480
• Dimensioni: 106 mm x 175 mm x 25 mm
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; FICTION / Occult & Supernatural, FICTION / Horror, Horror & ghost stories, Horror and supernatural fiction