Revisiting a book I loved from early 90s, I wondered if it would hold up.  It sure does.  It gripped me again from the killer opening line: “Only the most paranoid clients phone me in my sleep.” Nick Stavrianos is a PI, hired to search for a woman who disappeared from her room in a secure mental institution.  He is an ex-cop who can use his standard police neurological mods to ‘prime’ himself into what his ex-wife called the ‘zombie boy scout’, “so earnest, so […]