Wake Up Dead

by Christopher Bonn Jonnes

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0966452054
• ISBN13: 9780966452051
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: Salvo Press
• Length: 199 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

A sensual, passionate, hauntingly dangerous page turner.

Christopher Bonn Jonnes makes the transition from business writing to mystery writing with his first novel, Wake Up Dead. An unlikely author, Jonnes is vice president and co-owner of an industrial manufacturing company. His own personal experiments with lucid dreaming inspired this novel.Mason Brooks is a rogue professor who has made himself rich by experimenting with the concept of lucid dreaming and cashing in on what appears to be the ability to predict the future within a certain time frame. He has lured a beautiful young student, Monica Westfield, into his life and home with money and power. But he begins to see predictions of his own death tied in with a stranger named Paul Fontana, a handsome salesman with a taste for fast cars, loose women, and gambling who regularly manages to elude loan sharks. Brooks invites Fontana into his home to further his experiments and to try to find closure on the death dreams, but he doesn't bank on how quickly Fontana and Monica fall in love:"In a masochistic way he was proud of his cleverness for having acted upon his suspicion of Paul and Monica. After all, there hadn't been much to go on. Paul's desires were clear, but would he act on them? Monica had done only two things to make him question her faithfulness. She was quick to defend Paul on the question of the gun, and the fact that she searched his room and found the gun began to eat at Mason."Wake Up Dead is a psychological thriller of sorts, heavy on dream psychology. Jonnes does a great job of conjuring up characters that project Hitchcockian qualities: Monica is beautiful, intelligent, and is completely under the sway of the increasingly psychotic Professor Mason Brooks. Paul Fontana evolves from a two-bit hustler to a brave and self-sacrificing man worthy of Monica's love...if he can save her (and himself) from the clutches of the mad professor.Wake Up Dead is a page-turner that simmers with sensual passion and pulses with unspeakably haunting danger. There is nothing more terrifying than contemplating the breakdown of the human mind and civility when the scientific experiments begin. Christopher Bonn Jonnes rocks.

Awesome!

This book is the best I've read yet...And very VERY hard to put down! It's so realistic it's scary! The writing is excellent, very fluid, and always in motion... I recommend this book very highly! My compliments to the author!

Highly entertaining reader for mystery buffs & sci-fi fans.

After nebbish scientist Mason Brooks invents a dream-the-future machine, he uses it to amass riches in stocks and gambling -- and to impress the young and beautiful Monica Westfield. Then, he starts dreaming about his own death and must stop it before it comes true. The various lethal dreams share only one common element: the presence of Paul Fontana, a stranger to Mason and a used car salesman who is skeptical of this whole "dreaming the future" thing. Desperate to solve their mysterious bond, Mason pays Paul to become a guinea pig in the dream experiment. What Mason doesn't count on is that Paul falls in love with Monica and realizes the truth about Mason. Can Mason save himself and Monica before its too late? Wake Up Dead is a speculative thriller that blends elements of science fiction and mystery suspense that will prove highly entertaining reading for scifi fans and mystery buffs alike!

Whoa! Is This Where the Rabbit Hole Goes?

I really enjoyed this book. It takes what appears to be a far-fetched premise (lucid dreaming) and makes it believable. The science is very well explained and I really got caught up in the dizzying reality that is created as this scientific possibility comes to life (or is it death?). I felt like I had fallen down Alice's rabbit hole. Highly recommended!