Condition of book is excellent. Slight minimal wear after being read twice, otherwise like new. Experience the nightmare In 1954, at the start of the Cold War, the Soviet military offered four political prisoners their freedom if they participated in an experiment requiring them to remain awake for fourteen days while under the influence of a powerful stimulant gas. The prisoners ultimately reverted to murder, self-mutilation, and madness. None survived. In 2018, Dr. Roy Wallis, an esteemed psychology professor at UC Berkeley, is attempting to recreate the same experiment during the summer break in a soon-to-be demolished building on campus. He and two student assistants share an eight hour rotational schedule to observe their young Australian test subjects around the clock. What begins innocently enough, however, orphans into a nightmare beyond description that no one could have imagined — with, perhaps, the exception of Dr. Roy Wallis himself. USA TODAY and AMAZON bestselling author JEREMY BATES has published more than twenty novels me novellas, which have been translated into several languages. Optioned for film and TV, and downloaded more than one million times, Midwest Book Review compares his work to Stephen King, Joe Lansdale, and other masters of the art. He has won both an Australian Shadows Award and a Canadian Arthur Ellis Award. he was also a finalist in the Goodreads Choice Awards, the only major book awards decided by readers.