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Sleep Tight (2013)

by Jeff Jacobson(Favorite Author)

3.32 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

078603078X (ISBN13: 9780786030781)

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

Pinnacle

review 1: Sleep Tight by Jeff Jacobson is an intense book. T writes updifferent scenarios that reveal pieces of the story to be merged for the finale. It starts with a Russian man secretly importing endangered bats in stocking pockets on his person. They are carrying a parasite similar to a bed bug. Ed and Sam are two Chicago police detectives. They are there to pick up Sam's girlfriend when they hear gu shots in the airport. They investigate and see the dead man and he looks terrible. Then they see his jacket move and a bat flies up to the ceiling. The bat gets outside and drops dead. One by one rats come out to eat the bat. The bugs transfer to the rats. There is a new hotel that opened nicknamed the Fin. The deputy of sanitation has a prostitute in a room. His name is Lee. He see... mores a rash on his person and beats the hell out of the prostitute. He calls the manager and he discovers bed bugs. He calls the exterminator. They seal all the furniture in plastic and seal it in an empty room in the sub basement. Rats get into the room and tear the plastic up to get to the cushions and mattress. The bedbugs cross breed with the bat parasites. Tommy works for the sanitation department. He's threatened to leave his exwife Kimmy alone. He does get visitation with his daughter Grace. Kimmy's new boyfriend is Lee and he hates kids. Tommy and his partner Don bait rats and bring in the dead ones. Ed and Sam meet up with Qween, a street person. They drive her to City Hall and drop her off. Qween asks to see the mayor. Of course she's denied. She tells them there is something wrong with the rats. She throws a rat at the guards and it takes off. The guards arrest her and throw her in a cell.Next, Tommy and Don are called to trap the rat alive. When they find the rat it attached itself to Don's leg and begins gnawing on him.a bug climbs up leg. When the bat jumps Tommy swing a baseball bat killing the rat. The CDC sets up shop in a run down hospital evacuating all the sick and nurses and doctors, everyone. The doctor/professor in charge is mad. Crazy mad. Into this combination you have an assault on a major US city.
review 2: Sleep Tight was a surprisingly good read. Think Quarantine, Contagion, and Bug all mixed together. It's a fast paced read about a pandemic (started by an animal smuggler smuggling bats into the US)in Chicago. Told from different points of views, Sleep Tight was scary in the sense that the situation could really happen. Not a post apocalyptic zombie book. The "infected" are people bitten by bugs and driven to violence by the effects of the illness. I would like to see the author would do with the post apocalyptic zombie genre. He creates tense situations. less

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