Web Of Dreams

Rating:
Summary: Spellbinding
Review: As a ten year old child, Max Bonifice's favorite place is a small corner in his father's laboratory where he studies chemicals and their effects on animals. On his birthday Max is to be punished with an electric shock for crying during the previous night's thunderstorm. He struggles against the punishment and his father slips and hits. "The combined electricity in the wire he held and that of the electrode, raced through his body. In horror, Max watched as pain contorted his father's face and sent the man crumpling to the floor, hair and beard smoking and crisping under the charge."
As an adult, Max tucks his trophy wife Dana away in his estate in Riverview just outside the art and cultural Mecca of Dallas and Fortworth while he relentlessly pushes his company, Edge Pharmaceuticals, to top the rest of the industry in the development of new and critically needed drugs. He developed a drug named Prevamonamine, "a breakthrough drug that changes brain wave frequencies by the manipulation of the neurotransmitters in the brain. It will help schizophrenics....but it will also help normal people think better as well."

When Dana tires of being one of Max's possessions, she leaves him. Ever the doting husband, Max sends her chocolate éclairs every day. Dana is his; she will come back to him-one way or another.

This author never disappoints a reader and Web of dreams is another in the tradition of spellbinding novels. The plot swings alluringly in the web of Dana's dreams, capturing the reader in the threads of drugs, embryos, kidnapping, deceit, and madness. To open this book is to fall into a web from which the reader cannot escape.

-Evelyn Gale