Madison Smartt Bell is one of the most versatile and gifted authors of
his generation, a literary stylist with few peers. Doctor Sleep, one of
his best novels, is a taut and satisfying psychological thriller planned
to be released as a major motion picture under the title Hypnotic.
Adrian Strother is a hypnotherapist who, paradoxically, can't get to
sleep. He plies his trade in a depressed section of London, doing the
occasional job for Scotland Yard, which brings him into contact with an
unsavory drug trafficker. As little girls become the target of a serial
killer, Adrian treads the line between tortured wakefulness and surreal
sleep, and the gifts of his insomnia are called upon to unlock the
secrets of a man who believes he has discovered the key to immortality.
Part spiritual pilgrimage, part thriller, Doctor Sleep is witty,
menacing, and deeply satisfying, a bravura performance by one of today's
finest writers.