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    Disturb
    Disturb
    Disturb
    Audiobook6 hours

    Disturb

    Written by J.A. Konrath

    Narrated by Benjamin L. Darcie and MacLeod Andrews

    4/5

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    About this audiobook

    A medical investigator tormented by secret guilt.
    A beautiful doctor with an illicit desire.
    A millionaire businessman indulging a passion for murder.
    And a human guinea pig who has been awake for seven straight weeks.

    Disturb by JA Konrath
    You’ll never sleep well again...

    It's the pharmaceutical breakthrough of the millennium. DruTech Industries proudly presents N-SOM, a pill that completely replaces eight hours of sleep. Feel totally refreshed, both physically and mentally, in just fifteen minutes a night.

    The profit potential is boundless. Mankind's productivity will go through the roof. One third of a person's life could be recovered, for only ten dollars a dose.

    The FDA sends CDER agent Dr. Bill May to green light N-SOM for American use. The pressure, both political and monetary, is tremendous. But Bill soon harbors fears that N-SOM may not be as safe as early reports indicate...

    After meeting brilliant inventors Dr. Nikos Stefanopolous and his beautiful daughter Theena, Bill stumbles into an insidious cover-up that hinges on Emmanuel Tibbets, a human guinea pig who hasn't had a wink of sleep in over fifty days.

    Bill's investigation soon unearths a snarled tangle of extortion, conspiracy, taboo sex, hidden secrets, and murderous betrayal.

    When N-SOM's deadly side-effects are revealed, along with the shocking truth of how the drug is produced, Bill and Theena find themselves on the run from hired assassins, three letter government agencies, and a breed of psychopath unlike any ever known.

    Billions of dollars, and billions of lives, are at stake. Can Bill and Theena survive long enough to expose the truth? Or will the world succumb to an evil that may bring about the extinction of mankind?

    This audiobook version also includes the bonus horror short story, "Dear Diary," about a very special pom pon girl.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateApr 16, 2013
    ISBN9781469295497
    Disturb
    Author

    J.A. Konrath

    Joe Konrath has sold more than two million books in twenty countries. He’s written over thirty novels and over a hundred short stories in the mystery, thriller, horror, and sci-fi genres. He’s twice won the Love is Murder Award for best thriller, and has also won the Derringer Award, and the Ellery Queen Readers Choice Award, and has been nominated for many others including the Anthony, Macavity, and Gumshoe. Konrath edited the collection These Guns for Hire, and his fiction has appeared in dozens of magazines and anthologies including Ellery Queen, Alfred Hitchcock, Cemetery Dance, The Strand, Thriller edited by James Patterson, and Wolfsbane & Mistletoe edited by Charlaine Harris (True Blood). He’s considered a pioneer in self-publishing. His blog, A Newbie’s Guide to Publishing, gets several million hits per year, and Konrath has been featured in Forbes, Entertainment Weekly, Newsweek, Playboy, USA Today, Time, Woman's World, the LA Times, and the New York Times among many other periodicals. He also blogs for the Huffington Post. Find out more at www.jakonrath.com.

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    • 3/5
      A decent medical thriller with a fast pace and a lot of twists and turns. At the same time there was really nothing completely unpredictable for this horror fan.
    • 2/5
      The novel itself is okay, probably the least interesting of Konrath's work I've read. He wrote this without the humour because someone told him to, I agree with him, the humour is something that make his stories interesting. But it was the audio book narrator that made this a 2 star instead of 3, his whiny voice and characterisation was grating.
    • 4/5
      I really liked this frightening thriller. It was well written and exciting to read. I would like to read more by this author.
    • 4/5
      I discovered Konrath through his free book give-away on his website. Inspired. Apparently, he dusted off some of his early work that was not published. I liked a couple of his novellas so much I went off and bought the rest of his titles for my Kindle.

      Disturb involves a billionaire who has discovered a drug that permits you never to require sleep. Just think of the efficiencies gained by never sleeping. Man, I could really chew through a lot of books. Unfortunately, it has some rather nasty side-effects the good corporate man would rather remain hidden. A few clues to whet your appetite:

      -Memory is chemical

      -N-Som ( the drug in question) is not synthetic

      -fetal memory is preferred over the memory of someone just killed

      -it pays to bribe mortuary assistants and couriers need to be careful not to drop a box

      -FDA approval might be a good thing

      -personality is a complicated exchange of neurotransmitters

      -mixing the neurotransmitters of different personalities is not desirable

      Normally I don't like medical thrillers, nor horror, but Konrath managed to get my attention with this title, and I dropped everything until it was finished.
    • 3/5
      I absolutely loved the general concept of this story. That you could take a drug and in 15 min get all the sleep you need every night. The medical parts where Konrath broke down how it could be manufactured, the techno/medical part of this thriller is where the real strength of the story lies. The plot is completely boiler plate medical fiction (wow - a pharmaceutical giant needs a drug approved and will do anything to get it approved, haven't heard that story before). Beyond that you have some paper thin characters, juvenile story building and twists upon twists just for twists sake that when it all meshes together you just end up with a big jumbled mess. I really had to trudge thru to get to the un-redeeming and ridiculous ending, and I only did that because of I was enamored with the story idea. Two stars on the idea alone. Also should note, Konrath is supposedly noted for his humor in his books, something Disturb is completely void of. The author does note this at the end of the book however, but be aware of this if that is what you are expecting.