Now that Charlie Huston’s Joe Pitt books have wrapped up, the ever-prolific author has turned his sights on a mid-apocalyptic California for his first science-fiction novel, SLEEPLESS. It’s undoubtedly sci-fi — since Los Angeles is slowly being driven into chaos by a brain disease that turns people into never-sleeping, hyper-obsessive crazies who, at the end, can’t distinguish reality from dreams or memories — but there aren’t any rayguns, aliens or alien languages to trip up SF-phobes.
Like so many of Huston’s other books, SLEEPLESS is, at its core, a procedural detective yarn in the noir fashion.

On one side of the checkers board is Parker Haas, a prototypical Huston antagonist: an underachiever who’s dedicated, perhaps to a fault, to his job. He’s an undercover cop tasked with finding leads on big pharmaceutical smugglers while the world’s basically falling apart.

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