Glimpse

Format:

Book

Title:

Glimpse

Author:

Maberry, Jonathan author

ISBN:

9781250065261

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

New York : St. Martin's Press, 2018.

Physical Description:

338 pages ; 25 cm

Summary:

A "thriller that explores what happens when reality and nightmares converge, and how far one will go to protect the innocent when their own brain is a threat"--Amazon.com.

Seven years an addict and three difficult years clean, Rain Thomas is a mess: racked by guilt for the baby she gave up for adoption at sixteen; still grieving for the boy's father who died in Iraq. Alone, discarded by her family, her only friends the damaged members of her narcotics anonymous meetings ... and the voices in her head. She borrows a cracked pair of reading glasses to review her resume for a much needed job. Through the damaged slice of glass she sees a young boy go running down the aisle of the subway train; when she tries to find the boy no one else has seen him. Rain loses whole chunks of time, and the voices she hears are telling her horrible things. Between reality and nightmare, how far will one person go to save someone they love?

Subject(s):

Ex-drug addicts -- Fiction.

Auditory hallucinations -- Fiction.

Loss (Psychology) -- Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Psychological fiction.

Thrillers (Fiction)

Suspense fiction.

Holds:

Available:*

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Summary

"A waking dream, at once powerful and subtly sinister." --Clive Barker, New York Times bestselling author

A chilling thriller that explores what happens when reality and nightmares converge, and how far one will go to protect the innocent when their own brain is a threat.

From New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Maberry comes a novel that puts a bold new spin on the supernatural thriller.

Rain Thomas is a mess. Seven years an addict and three difficult years clean. Racked by guilt for the baby she gave up for adoption when she was sixteen. Still grieving for the boy's father who died in Iraq. Alone, discarded by her family, with only the damaged members of her narcotics anonymous meetings as friends. Them, and the voices in her head.

One morning, on the way to a much-needed job interview, she borrows reading glasses to review her resume. There is a small crack in one lens and through that damaged slice of glass she sees a young boy go running down the aisle of the subway train. Is he screaming with laughter or just screaming? When she tries to find the boy, he's gone and no one has seen him.

The day spins out of control. Rain loses whole chunks of time. She has no idea where her days went. The voices she hears are telling her horrible things. And even stranger things are happening. Unsure whether she is going insane, Rain sets out to find answers to long buried questions about an earlier life she has avoided for years--in what may be the most dangerous collision of all, that between reality and nightmare.

How far will one person go to save someone they love?

Read on at your own peril...

Author Notes

Jonathan Maberry was born on May 18, 1958. His early books dealt mainly with martial arts and self defense. He then wrote a number of books on the folklore and beliefs of the occult and paranormal including Vampire Universe: The Dark World of Supernatural Beings That Haunt Us, Hunt Us and Hunger for Us, Zombie CSU, and They Bite. His first novel, Ghost Road Blues, won the 2007 Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel. His other works include The Pine Deep Trilogy, the Joe Ledger series, and the Rot and Ruin series. He is also a freelance comic book writer.

(Bowker Author Biography)

Reviews (2)

Publisher's Weekly Review

New Yorker Rain Thomas, the tormented heroine of this uneven supernatural thriller from bestseller Maberry (Ghost Road Blues), had sex for the first time at 15 with 18-year-old Noah, who shipped off to Iraq the next day. She later learned that she was pregnant and that Noah has died in an explosion. Under pressure, Rain gave up their baby for adoption. Years later, she still grieves for Noah and feels guilty about giving up the baby. Then things start to get really bad. She arrives early for a job interview, only to be told that she's almost 24 hours late. Her disorientation at having blacked out and lost an entire day is compounded when she concludes that she hallucinated an encounter with an old woman who gave her a pair of glasses with a crack in one lens that have unusual properties: they allow her to see a boy who looks a lot like Noah. Maberry sympathetically depicts Rain's struggle to maintain her sanity, but familiar genre material, including Rain's battle with an evil figure whose name should not be uttered, soon overshadows the initially moving human story. (Mar.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

Booklist Review

*Starred Review* Maberry, known for such sf/horror fare as the Joe Ledger novels and the one-two zombie punch of Dead of Night (2011) and Fall of Night (2014), steps a bit outside his comfort zone with this psychological/supernatural thriller. Rain Thomas, a recovering drug addict, seems to be missing a day: she went to sleep Thursday night and woke up on Saturday. But this is no garden-variety blackout. After she awakens, but before she becomes aware of the missing time, she experiences what she can only assume is a dream: images of a small boy being chased by a threatening . . . something. Later, as Rain tries to figure out how she could be missing an entire day, she is shocked to discover that a figure from her previous life, the drug-induced hallucination she called Doctor Nine, has somehow manifested himself and is chasing the boy Rain had seen in her dream a boy who, Rain now realizes, bears an uncanny resemblance to her former boyfriend, who was the father of the baby she put up for adoption 10 years ago. As reality and illusion collide, Rain must decide how far she is prepared to go to save the boy and herself. Maberry's narrative skills remain first-rate here, and his writing displays more subtlety and greater structural elegance than in past works. A success on all fronts. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: A bold new direction for one of the giants of the horror genre, and one that could extend his already enormous audience still further.--Pitt, David Copyright 2018 Booklist