Review: From  Dream to Walking Nightmare
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 30, 2012
In Book One of the Mark Taylor series "No Good Deed,"  we meet Mark, a photographer, adventurer and a hero of sorts. Mark agrees to help an old friend take photographs for a book he's writing about cultural practices in Afghanistan. Together they travel there and begin their work. During some down time, Mark investigates a bazaar where he finds and purchases an old camera that is most unusual. Back in the United States Mark tests the camera and finds that it yields totally bizarre photographs.Such is the case with photos which are developed prior to the tragedy on 9/11. He has discovered that after looking at the photographs unique to the camera, as he goes to sleep he dreams finds the information in the photos  fleshed out in such as way that if he intervenes, he can often stop tragedies from occurring.  His attempt to do this on 9/11 goes badly for him and for our entire country. Authorities soon label Taylor as an enemy combatant after hearing his tale of terrorism yet to come. His subsequent capture and punishment by government agencies is the stuff which makes nightmares seem tame.McDonald has researched her subject thoroughly and pens a hair raising story of torture and unbearable prison conditions. A real page turner, it's hard to turn out the lights on this story, not only because of the vivid portrait painted of what happens to a detainee but the psychological torment follows one into sleep. I read the series out of order but in the end it totally kept me wanting more and I was happy to find the "rest of the story" as Paul Harvey would say in the pages of her three other Mark Taylor novels. A great read. A wonderful find if you are looking for some new talent in the genre. Thank you M.P. McDonald. Job well done.