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The Waking
by TM Jenkins (Macmillan, pounds 12.99)
When her husband is gunned down by a teen punk, pregnant doctor Mary Sheenhan knows exactly what to do: cut his throat, pump ice slurry into his brain and hack off his head. Yep, she works in cryogenics. Of course, the murder could be coincidence. But since The Waking mixes high concept with global conspiracy, both with capitals, it quite obviously isn't. Sixty-three years later, Duane Williams is about to be executed for rape and murder - so we can guess whose body Nate Sheenhan will occupy when he comes back to life. But the body has murderous impulses of its own - and then there's the medical plot that goes right back to that supposedly random shooting. Big concept, cookie-cutter characters and a narrative that tells you what happens, what the characters think about what happens, and what you should think about what the characters think about what happens. It worked for Dan Brown.
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