num_pages: 271
description: The wickedly entertaining debut featuring Mark Genevich Narcoleptic DetectiveMark Genevich is a South Boston P.I. with a little problem: he's narcoleptic and he suffers from the most severe symptoms including hypnagogic hallucinations. These waking dreams wreak havoc for a guy who depends on real-life clues to make his living.Clients haven't exactly been beating down the door when Mark meets Jennifer Timesdaughter of the powerful local D.A. and a contestant on American Starwho walks into his office with an outlandish story about a man who stole her fingers. He awakes from his latest hallucination alone but on his desk is a manila envelope containing risqu photos of Jennifer. Are the pictures real and if so is Mark hunting a blackmailer or worse?Wildly imaginative and with a pitch-perfect voice Paul Tremblay's The Little Sleep is the first in a new series that casts a fresh eye on the rigors of detective work and introduces a character who has a lot to proveif only he can stay awake long enough to do it.
language: English
title: The Little Sleep
publisher: Holt McDougal