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Fiction Thrillers

The Placebo Effect

by (author) David Rotenberg

Publisher
Scribner
Initial publish date
Mar 2013
Category
Thrillers, Action & Adventure, Suspense
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781476713076
    Publish Date
    Jan 2013
    List Price
    $16.99
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781439172643
    Publish Date
    Feb 2012
    List Price
    $10.99 USD
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781476746876
    Publish Date
    Mar 2013
    List Price
    $16.99
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781439170113
    Publish Date
    Feb 2012
    List Price
    $19.99
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781439170069
    Publish Date
    Feb 2012
    List Price
    $29.99

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In this first action-packed novel in The Junction Chronicles, professor and acting coach Decker Roberts has the dangerous gift of detecting the truth—that turns into deadly curse.

For years Decker’s rare sensory ability to discern the truth proved to be a lucrative sideline to his acting teaching. Only his closest friends know, and he keeps his "synesthete" identity secret from the companies that pay him to tell them if the people they are planning to hire are truthful.

But Decker’s carefully compartmentalized life starts to fall apart. His house burns down, his credit cards are cancelled, his bank loan is called and his studio is condemned. He realizes that he must have heard something in one of his truth-telling sessions that someone didn’t want him to know.

Decker has to go on the run and figure out why he’s been targeted. There’s also a government agent hunting him who seems to know absolutely everything about Decker Roberts’ identities, real and false—and other people of “his kind.”

How will Decker find out which truth was endangering his life? Who betrayed him and revealed all his secrets? Decker needs to find answers quickly, before knowing the truth turns from a gift into a deadly curse.

About the author

David Rotenberg is a professor emeritus of theatre studies at York University, where he taught graduate students for over 25 years. He has released 12 novels which have been published by Penguin, Simon and Schuster, McArthur and Company, St. Martin's Press, and ECW. His novels have been optioned in the past for major motion picture adaptation. City Rising is presently in negotiation with London producers. He I s the founder and artistic director of the world-renowned actor training institute - Pro Actors Lab. His historical fiction novel entitled, City Rising is based on true events and explores the epic stories of the Iraqi-Jews, and the prominent Chinese families of the renowned port city across several centuries. It will be published by At Bay Press in the Fall of 2023.

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