Dead Asleep

By Jamie Freveletti

"One of the top thriller writers working today….A master."
—Steve Berry, New York Times bestselling author of The Jefferson Key

A former Chicago trial lawyer-turned-critically acclaimed thriller writer, Jaime Freveletti hit the ground running with her debut novel, Running from the Devil—winning a Thriller and a Barry Award and nominations for the Macavity and Crimespree Awards as well. With her fourth novel, Dead Asleep, Freveletti proves she hasn't let up for an instant, plunging her brilliant, tough-as-nails series protagonist, biochemist Emma Caldridge, into a Caribbean island nightmare of voodoo superstition, terrorist plots, and deadly plague. Dead Asleep is intelligent, action-packed suspense fiction—rich in invention and frightening scientific plausibility—that will enthrall fans of Lee Child and Daniel Silva, and Kathy Reichs and Tess Gerritsen readers equally.

• Language: English
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Release date: Oct 30, 2012
• ISBN: 9780062198013

Jamie Freveletti

Jamie Freveletti is a former trial lawyer, martial artist, and runner. She is the author of four books in her own Emma Caldridge series as well as Robert Ludlum's Covert One novel, The Janus Reprisal. She lives in Chicago.

Reviews for Dead Asleep

[jennifer35k · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Pandemics have been a subject of movies for the past decade. They are the nightmares of directors and the entertainment of the masses. The concept of mass sickness is something that children are taught in school, like the Black Death or Spanish flu. Not very many people think of what would happen if a pandemic were to hit the shores of the United States. Mass chaos and confusion would break out and people would learn what the phrase, ‘living hell’ meant. Pandemics are safer in movies and nightmares. It is the stuff that make medical doctors cringe and movies audiences hide under the sheets. This book is about a Biochemist named Emma Caldridge that finds herself assigned to a secluded island in search of new resources for a cosmetic company. Armed with her wits and past experience with dangerous assignments, her current location seems like a mini vacation. Although she predicts a few weeks of work and leisure she is soon faced with the presence of a mysterious voodoo priestess. As the weeks progress Emma is perpetually threatened with death and quickly is presented with a mysterious illness that is plaguing the local inhabitants. One by one people are falling asleep and not waking up. As people fall prey to this coma like illness, Emma is threatened by another person who seeks the same resources. Will Emma fall prey to this potential sleep pandemic? Will she discover who is behind the potential pandemic and why they are after the same resources as she is?This book was a new type of read for me. It was very interesting and covered topics that I don’t normally read. I found the story to be smooth sailing and full of action. I thought all of the characters were well thought out and the story came to a complete end. With that I would like to say that I did find the book to be a little confusing at times and found myself having to go back to find out who the book was referring to. I felt like there was a lot of jumping around from one person to another. It felt at times that Emma was not the main character of the story and that also threw me for a loop. I hope with future books the author tries to avoid this. Overall I still recommend this book. It could use a little work, but it still was a great story.