The Theta Syndrome
Author: Elleston Trevor
 
A story of slow terror of a mind imprisoned in a nightmare
 
Claudia, a victim of an unexplained road accident, lies in a coma in a Los Angeles hospital, the monitor screen above her bed slowing hour by hour into the theta region, the twilight zone of the unknown. Surgeons work day and night for her survival, but the danger isn't in here; it's out there . . .
. . . Where the instrument in the surgeon's hand flashes under the glare of the theatre lights as he sags to the floor, dying . . .
. . . Where a nurse involuntarily scribbles frantic appeals for help which she cannot explain . . . Where a child suddenly screams as the red crayon slashes across her colouring book; a smashed car . . . rats in a cage . . . a woman's face.
In the intensive care unit Claudia lies surrounded by the most sophisticated equipment devised for the saving of human life. But it isn't enough, because someone is coming and only Claudia's silently screaming brain can say who.
 
NEL 1st PAPERBACK EDITION SEPTEMBER 1978
ISBN: 0450038300