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Praying for Sleep
Praying for Sleep | Jeffery Deaver
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Michael Hrubeck, a twenty-eight-year-old man with childlike yearnings, escapes from a hospital for the criminally insane and sets out to find the woman who named him as the Indian Leap State Park murderer. 75,000 first printing. $75,000 ad/promo. BOMC Alt.
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Praying for Sleep | Jeffery Deaver
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My memory is hazy of when I went through the bulk of the story years ago, but the twist and denouement made little sense to me, not very well explained. One of themes of this psychological horror bears more meaning to me now, with the issue closer at hand and having some personal experience---this jarring and counterintuitively "trusted" contradictory-turned-both-and-in-tension truth of mental illness and the humanity inside. Tense, psychological

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Booknerd2
Praying for Sleep | Jeffery Deaver
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Thought I had read all of his books but found this one slipped by me. A madman has escaped from a mental facility and has some unfinished business with the eye witness at his murder trial. She knows he's coming for her. Will a record breaking storm stop him? Her husband? Deputies and his doctors? A bounty hunter and his dog? Pretty ❤️pounding and a huge twist at the end!!! Excellent read!!!