The Placebo Effect
eBook - ePub

The Placebo Effect

  1. 352 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Placebo Effect

About this book

In this first action-packed novel in The Junction Chronicles, professor and acting coach Decker Roberts has the dangerous gift of detecting the truth—that turns into deadly curse. For years Decker's rare sensory ability to discern the truth proved to be a lucrative sideline to his acting teaching. Only his closest friends know, and he keeps his "synesthete" identity secret from the companies that pay him to tell them if the people they are planning to hire are truthful. But Decker's carefully compartmentalized life starts to fall apart. His house burns down, his credit cards are cancelled, his bank loan is called and his studio is condemned. He realizes that he must have heard something in one of his truth-telling sessions that someone didn't want him to know. Decker has to go on the run and figure out why he's been targeted. There's also a government agent hunting him who seems to know absolutely everything about Decker Roberts' identities, real and false—and other people of "his kind." How will Decker find out which truth was endangering his life? Who betrayed him and revealed all his secrets? Decker needs to find answers quickly, before knowing the truth turns from a gift into a deadly curse.

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Information

Publisher
Scribner
Year
2013
Print ISBN
9781476746876
eBook ISBN
9781476746913

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Dedication
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Prologue
  5. Chapter 1: The Dangerous Voyage of Mike Shedloski Begins
  6. Chapter 2: In The Castle of The Enemy
  7. Chapter 3: Mike Gets the Urge for Going
  8. Chapter 4: Teacher
  9. Chapter 5: Yslan Hicks
  10. Chapter 6: Decker Takes a Job, or Two or Three
  11. Chapter 7: Yslan at the NSA
  12. Chapter 8: Orlando, Florida
  13. Chapter 9: The Further Voyage of Michael Shedloski
  14. Chapter 10: Pittsburgh
  15. Chapter 11: Cleveland, Ohio
  16. Chapter 12: Mac
  17. Chapter 13: Mike at Decker’s House
  18. Chapter 14: Henry-Clay’s Decision
  19. Chapter 15: Nightmares
  20. Chapter 16: Crazy Eddie
  21. Chapter 17: The Day After a Fire
  22. Chapter 18: Arson
  23. Chapter 19: The End of a Long Day
  24. Chapter 20: Henry-Clay
  25. Chapter 21: A Visit to Leavenworth
  26. Chapter 22: A Noose Tightens
  27. Chapter 23: Stanstead
  28. Chapter 24: Charles Cleareyes
  29. Chapter 25: Return to Manhattan
  30. Chapter 26: Josh
  31. Chapter 27: A Little Acting
  32. Chapter 28: Garden State
  33. Chapter 29: Mac and Henry-Clay
  34. Chapter 30: B
  35. Chapter 31: Decker and Yslan
  36. Chapter 32: Seth
  37. Chapter 33: Henry-Clay
  38. Chapter 34: What’s a Lie
  39. Chapter 35: Has Anyone Seen Mike?
  40. Chapter 36: Movements Toward New Jersey
  41. Chapter 37: Insurance
  42. Chapter 38: Escape
  43. Chapter 39: Hiding—A Column of Smoke Within a Fog
  44. Chapter 40: Yslan in Motion
  45. Chapter 41: A Cold Day in New York
  46. Chapter 42: Emerson Remi
  47. Chapter 43: Semblant Order
  48. Chapter 44: On the Bus
  49. Chapter 45: A Cold Night in Toronto
  50. Chapter 46: Cincinnati, Ohio
  51. Chapter 47: Cincinnati, Ohio, Two
  52. Chapter 48: Give Dreadful Note of Preparation
  53. Chapter 49: Fight in a Synagogue
  54. Chapter 50: After
  55. Chapter 51: Home?
  56. Chapter 52: Crazy Eddie
  57. Chapter 53: The Rothko Chapel
  58. Chapter 54: Dream Healing
  59. Chapter 55: The Junction—End, Full Stop.
  60. About the Author
  61. Copyright