John Nicholas Datesh Knihy

Raymond Carleton's brilliant dream manipulation technology was many generations too advanced.So, Talbot Research blindly dismissed Raymond's therapeutic dream system as quackery. That made Raymond understandably angry.Then his last hope, financial whiz Madelaine Jordan, dismissed Raymond himself. That made Raymond incredibly dangerous.He had not designed his machine to twist the sweetest dream into a heart-splitting, very final nightmare. But it did. And Raymond was suddenly crazed enough to use it on his enemies list.Raymond had never expected one of his victims to fight back. Madelaine Jordan was that one.

Very pretty, very rich Diana Winter practically begged Casey Carmichael to find her father's murderer. A softball, like no PI ever got. Her very dumb fiance Tony Hiller had been recorded, over the phone, very much killing her father. And the fiance very conveniently confessed. Carmichael had the time and he needed the fee. The client wore big pleading eyes, had a ton of money and needed all the reassurance Carmichael could manage. Throw in Janice Simmons, a stunning reporter hot on the case, if he needed more convincing. All he had to do was go through the motions, check the octave of the recorded confession, go to the nearest bank and cash in on Diana's guilt. So, Carmichael did all the above. It went great. Diana didn't hate him much. Shrink-drugged Tony didn't much care. Janice? She wasn't much sure. But still, nice job. Only, a couple stray observations... okay, call them clues... bugged him. If errant clues meant anything at all, Carmichael had completely blown it, misreading one murder and leaving a two-faced killer free to kill some more."

Lawyer Chris Dunney was in Cold War Moscow to negotiate a contract for the 1980 Moscow Olympics Games and to make partner. Dissidents' human rights meant nothing to him.Until he met Elizaveta, a beautiful activist, one of the KGB's Most Wanted. Through her, Dunney ended up with explosive evidence that would derail Moscow's historic show trial. The KGB would stop at nothing to get it.Dunney was nobody's hero, but there he was considering risking his career, his freedom and, yes, his life for...Being played pissed Christoper off. That was his second biggest weakness.Damn it. Time to run.