Worst Nightmares [Paperback]

Shane Briant (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Vanguard; 1st Edition/1st Printing edition (2009)
• ASIN: B002TIS36E
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)

More About the Author

Shane has starred in 36 films in the U.S.A, the U.K., Europe and Australia,14 television plays and mini series for the B.B.C. and I.T.V; and in the USA starred in 3 Prime Time networked telemovies, playing Dorian Gray in Glenn Jordan's 'The Picture of Dorian Gray', a three hour special for the ABC produced by Dan Curtis; starring with Timothy Dalton in 'The Flame is Love' for NBC; and guest starring opposite Academy Award winner Olivia de Havilland in NBC's 'Murder is Easy'

He worked with Paul Newman and James Mason in 'The Mackintosh Man', played Jack Palance's son in 'Hawk the Slayer,' starred opposite Academy Award winner Cliff Robertson in 'Shaker Run' to name but a few films during this period.

His most notable television appearances in the U.K. are Jack Gold's 'The Naked Civil Servant' with John Hurt, and starring with Academy Award winner Jeremy Irons in Warris Hussein's 'Notorious Woman' which won Rosemary Harris the Emmy that year.

Following a promotional tour of Australia for Columbia Pictures to promote 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' in '82, Shane continued to work in the U.K. and America. In Australia he has starred in 13 feature films including 'Bruce Morrison's award-winning 'Constance', 'Shaker Run' co-starring with Academy Award winner Cliff Robertson, Simon Wincer's 'The Lighthorsemen', 'Minnimurra', starring with Jeff Fahey, Mark Joffe's 'Grievous Bodily Harm', and John Seale's 'Till There Was You', starring with Mark Harmon and Jeroen Krabbé. He's also made several mini series, including George Miller's 'Anzacs' and Pino Amenta's 'Nancy Wake'. Also two-hander 'Twisted Tales' with Geoffrey Rush.

In 2007 he was cast as Appsley in 'The Children of Huang Shi', U.K. director Roger Spottiswoode's new epic, starring Jonathon Rhys Meyers, Rhada Mitchell and David Wenham.

He is also the author of 6 best selling novels - "The Webber Agenda" (1994), "The Chasen Catalyst" (1996), "Hitkids" (2000), and "Bite of the Lotus" (2001). All have been optioned for film. His sixth novel, already optioned, was published in October 2005 - "GRAPHIC."

His sixth novel, 'WorstNightmares' was published by publisher of the year 2008, Vanguard Press in America in May 2009.

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Mindful of A Murder of Crows, May 11, 2009

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Harriet Klausner - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Worst Nightmares (Hardcover)

In downtown Los Angeles homeless bum Albert K. Arnold accosts bestselling author Dermot Nolan at the latter's warehouse home. Dermot's first reaction is the visitor is crazy. Still, he accepts a manuscript from the derange person mostly to get him out of his face.

Nolan puts aside My Worst Nightmares, a journal of an abusive serial killer who catches his victims over his net site Dream Healer before committing atrocities based on the prey's biggest fear. When Arnold dies, Nolan takes a closer look at the manuscript. Suffering from writer's block since his last book was sold to Hollywood last year, Nolan and his wife adapt Arnold's book and publish it as his. However, there is one problem that surfaces with the plagiarism of the manuscript; evidence mounts that My Worst Nightmares records real homicides that make the writer a person of interest to LAPD, the FBI and a serial killer working the Internet to ensnare his targets.

Mindful of A Murder of Crows starring Cuba Gooding Jr., WORST NIGHTMARES is a terrific thriller as Nolan crumbling under writing pressure to produce his next novel takes a seeming shortcut that leaves him in a greater pressure cooker. Readers will know who his antagonist is, but not care as the fun in the tale is to see whether the novelist can extract himself and his wife out of peril from a lethal serial killer and with the law that believes he is the lethal serial killer.

Harriet Klausner

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Surprised how bad the book was compared to the reviews..., August 24, 2010

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Maracuya - See all my reviews

This review is from: Worst Nightmares (Kindle Edition)

I didn't read the reviews before buying this. I just picked it up randomly at a book store and wanted to try out a new author, and the story synopsis seemed incredibly interesting. The book was a total bore. The Dream Healer was easily found out, the book tried too hard to be scary to the point of reeking of cheese. The main character was extremely annoying. The main character's wife had no personality. She let her husband run over her like he was a huge John Deere machine. I did not care for her, feel sorry for her. I only really ended up feeling bad for one character in the book toward the end.
The ending of this book was just horrible! I had to make up my own ending in my mind. There are some books that work with the "open-ended" type finality, but this just didn't work. There were a lot of moments in the book where people would do INCREDIBLY stupid things that you mostly see in cliche teenager-naked-in-the-shower "horror/slasher" movies.

The book, in the end, simply reeked of cheese. It's not the worst book I've ever read. I just wish it wasn't predictable, I wish the ending made more sense, and I wish the characters had more depth and were less annoying. The only good thing about this book is that it gave me something to waste my time with while recovering from a recent surgery. It gave me "hope" that something interesting would actually happen somewhere near the end.

/sigh

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Phenomenal Thriller, August 23, 2009

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365andMe - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Worst Nightmares (Hardcover)

Award winning author, Dermot Nolan is under pressure. His half-million dollar advance is spent and he can't seem to produce results. An unsolicited manuscript ends up in his mailbox. It's written by Albert K. Arnold and appears to be a memoir of a serial killer. Nolan and his wife investigate the murders to see if these were based on real people. What he discovers is chilling.

When Arnold apparently jumps off a roof and dies, Nolan takes the man's work and publishes it as his own. Months later, when the book is a success and there is talk of a movie deal, Nolan gets a phone call. Seems like Albert Arnold wasn't the jumper on that roof and Nolan's worst nightmare begins to take form.

The ending of the book was left to the reader's imagination. Normally, I'd throw a fit when this happens. With this story, it worked. When I finished the last page, I was done. I felt I knew what happened next and I didn't want anyone to tell me different.

This phenomenal thriller and I can't wait to see what Shane Briant will come up with next!