the_sleep_policeBy Jay R. Bonansinga
Signet/Onyx, September 2000

Frank Janus is about to meet the most dangerous man in the world: Himself. Burned out, hung over and haunted by four gruesome, unsolved murders, the stressed-out police detective discovers a small package on his desk. Nobody knows who left it there. It’s an unmarked videotape. But when Frank pops it into a VCR, his life is suddenly turned upside down. The man on the tape is Frank. But Frank doesn’t remember making any such videotape. “I hate to break this to you, Sport,” the onscreen Frank says. “But the guy responsible for those murders that have been keeping you up at night – the guy you’re looking for – is you. Or should I say, me. That’s right, you’ve got another personality, and that personality is me. And I have a nasty compulsion to make people dead.” Thus begins a very unique and horrifying story of one man’s waking nightmare. Is Frank on the brink of a psychotic breakdown? Has he already experienced one? Or is something more sinister at work?