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    Liquid Fear

    Written by Scott Nicholson

    Narrated by Tanya Eby

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    About this audiobook

    When Roland Doyle wakes up in an unfamiliar motel room with a strange man's wallet in his pocket and a woman's dead body in the bathroom, he fears the worst…and that's before he finds the vial of pills labeled "take one every 4 hrs or else." Or else what?

    Ten years ago, Dr. Sebastian Briggs's clinical drug trial for a cutting-edge fear-response drug went horribly wrong - or did it? It's true that one trial participant died and five others were left with no memory of what happened to them. But now several interested parties, including a major pharmaceutical company and an ambitious U.S. senator, are willing to back Briggs's continued research. All he has to do is recall his five surviving "volunteers," whose addiction to a mysterious drug has left them largely at his disposal. They will do anything necessary to keep the pills coming and to stave off the creeping phobias, intense sexual impulses, and all-consuming madness that lurk on the edges of their minds. It's easy enough for the good doctor to lure the survivors back to the remote Monkey House, where the original trials took place. But when the pills finally run out…that's when the real show begins.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateDec 20, 2011
    ISBN9781455871773
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    Liquid Fear
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    Scott Nicholson

    Scott Nicholson is author of seven novels, including THE RED CHURCH, SPEED DATING WITH THE DEAD, DRUMMER BOY, and THE SKULL RING. Other books include the novellas BURIAL TO FOLLOW and TRANSPARENT LOVERS and the story collections ASHES, THE FIRST, and FLOWERS. He also writes screenplays and children's books. Nicholson lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina.

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    • 4/5
      Nicholson hits a home run with this exciting thriller. The plot will keep you on the edge of your seat while you try and put the pieces together. The prose is sharp and makes for a quick read. Don't start this late in the evening unless you have the next day off from work. It's weird and frightening, and speaks volumes about our current throw-away society. You may even think twice about that next blood pressure pill. Nice work, Mr. Nicholson! I'm already off to the sequel!
    • 4/5
      This edge-of-the-seat thriller keeps the reader guessing as the author plays with the idea of drugs that can predispose a person to violence when adrenalin is released into the blood stream. And worse than that, the drug can lay dormant for years. The antidote makes the "user" forget what they've done, but once you start taking them, you need to keep them up to keep the demons at bay.Is this the future path for chemical warfare? Soldiers pop pills to make them violent? The scenario is horrifying and what if it was a gas not a pill?The author does a good job of imagining possibilities.
    • 3/5
      Overall, I enjoyed the book. It certainly gave me a lot to think about. The beginning was a bit confusing, as the reader is just dropped into the middle of the story, with no explanation of what is going on. The ending was also not very satisfying. I was hoping at least to see how Wendy and Roland were doing. The few pages on them just wasn't enough. And it seemed like so much time was spent just getting all the characters to the monkey house, that I was expecting more to happen there.
    • 3/5
      In this dark novel, a drug trial for fear response seemed to have failed ten years ago. One volunteer died and the pther participants lives were ruined.Now, a pharmaceutical company and an ambitious U.S. senator become interested.The story is compicated in that for the first section of the book characters appear with no real explination of who they are.Since paranoia and fear are at the base of Dr. Sebastian Biggs's expirement, it is little wonder that a number of the characters have aliases which adds to the complexity of the story.Things do pick up in the second half of the book with mad scientist Biggs going crazier every moment.Certainly an original concept and I liked the second half of the story more than the first but overall, this book wasn't for me.
    • 4/5
      I'm not usually much of one for thrillers, but something about the blurb drew me in. I quickly learned that Liquid Fear isn't for casual fans of horror/thrillers. It's incredibly gritty, dark and well...downright creepy.From the beginning to the end, Liquid Fear is a pulse-pounding adventure drenched in gritty grim, dark thrills and terrible horrors that no human should ever have to experience. Complete with high-octane thrills and government drug trials gone wrong, what's not to like? Even for someone who isn't a thriller or horror junkie, Liquid Fear just hits all the right creepy buttons and delivers plenty of excitement for another whose willing to take a trip to the gritty side of life.Though at times over-written and a little conceited with plot, Liquid Fear was very fast-paced and entertaining to read. Great for thriller junkie, but not for the faint of heart or stomach.
    • 4/5
      “Liquid Fear” by Scott Nicholson:Right from the start Nicholson throws you into mystery. It’s non-stop encounters as the characters—as well as myself—race against a clock they’re unaware is ticking to remember what it is they forgot only to block out what they know in order to keep the fear at bay.David Dunn—or is it Roland Doyle—Anita Mokesky, Wendy Leng and Alexis Morgan are all remnants of a ten-year old experiment gone wrong and buried. At least that’s what everyone thinks. But Dr. Sebastian Briggs hasn’t given up on his project and brings his subjects back together. Will their fear overcome any rational thought turning them into human, raging animals?Kudos to Nicholson for penning yet again another great story to get lost in. A great read no matter the time of day or year.
    • 5/5
      Liquid Fear is a fast paced thriller that never lets down. The premise of the story is that a group of individuals years ago took an experimental drug that was designed to inhibit their fear. Dr. Sebstian Briggs is the ruthless, megolomaniac scientist behind the experiments. In order to trigger extreme fear into these individuals, he induces horribly traumatic events, hiring a psycopathic operative to induce the events. The individuals in the experiment are given the same pills they took years ago. When they start taking them again, they begin to slowly remember the horrible events of their past that occurred during the last set of experiments. Meanwhile, Dr. Briggs is manipulating them the entire time. Liquid Fear is the kind of book that you don't want to stop reading once you pick it up. I finished it in three days. My only beef with it is the portrayal of the evil, sinister pharmaceutical company in the book. I think that theme is overdone and unfounded. I'm probably a bit sensitive to it since I work for a big pharma company, but all the same, you won't be disapointed with this book.Carl Alves - author of Two For Eternity
    • 5/5
      I've long been disturbed by how our FDA operates, and this book is like a nightmare come true. Nicholson's writing is vivid. He gets inside the emotions, making us feel them right along with his characters. I had a hard time following the plot at first but, once I got into it, I didn't want to put it down.
    • 4/5
      Ten years ago six college students enrolled in a drug trial. Now living seemingly normal lives, they really don't remember what happened during the trial. Now Dr. Briggs, the doctor in charge of the drug trial, is back and forcing them to remember by giving them a new drug that makes them not only remember, but regress to their most primative instincts. They all are trying to survive these awful drugs while trying not repeat the murderous event that happened ten years with the original drug trial.
    • 5/5
      Liquid Fear by Scott Nicholson is a page-turning story that dives head first into the bizarre and unknown. The reader will immediately become immersed in the world that Nicholson has created and have no option but to continue reading until the end.Wendy, Roland, Alexis and Anita are all brought together again when they start remembering a dark past that happened while they were test subjects to a new product Dr. Briggs was working on. Originally thought to be a medicine to help one conquer their fears, they are left wondering if the impulses they are feeling are really their own dark desires or just a side-effect of the drug they yearn for. Either way they soon realize they are just test mice running through Dr. Briggs maze with no apparent way to escape.A relatively quick read (it took me about 4 hours), Liquid Fear touches on topics like controlling your fears, human experimentation, political corruption, sexual desire, murder and pain. This book does contain adult language, sex, violence and gore and should only be read by mature adult audiences that are 18+.
    • 5/5
      This story follows a cast of characters that are part of an experiment gone horribly wrong (or right if you take this from the perspective of the master mind behind it). As the book progresses you begin to see how their fates are intertwined and the nature of the experiment in which they are immersed. It's easy to empathize with each of their plights as they are manipulated at every turn to finally end up at their intended destination, The Monkey House. It's a brilliant thriller that I cannot recommend enough. And if you like shifting points of view, like I do, then you'll easily see the master of storytelling that Nicholson is.There are writers out there that can pump out a good story, but few can do it was well as Nicholson while still delighting with his ability to craft sentences. This is a man who knows his art. And similar to Drummer Boy, the story doesn't seem to escape your head when you're not reading it. I definitely plan on picking up more of his work. He's on my A-list of authors.