Brewer's Odyssey

"THOMAS BREWER has done this before, moving like a pinball through a surreal nightmare only to awake in a different physical place." So begins "Brewer's Odyssey." Popular writer, Thomas Brewer, 40, finds himself in a plot not unlike his Gothic novels. A nightmare predicts a terrorist attack, and when it occurs and Brewer survives, his assumed psychic abilities draw the interest of a cynical CIA agent, Jeffrey Peterson. When Hillary Miller, Brewer's English-African literary agent and former lover, is indirectly linked to a terrorist plot involving the Vatican, Brewer inadvertently implicates the Middle-Eastern father of Hillary Miller's infant daughter. Subsequent revenge brings tragic results at a Paris celebration. Neurologist Susan Fredericks and the object of Brewer's desire reveals his prescient nightmares suggest another condition: REM Sleep Behavior Disorder that can lead to Lewy Body Dementia. Thomas Brewer might have little time before paranoia and hallucinations destroy him leaving unanswered questions: did he really meet the ghost of Daphne du Maurier, and just who is that mysterious black girl haunting his dreams? On an Aran island called Inishmore full of magical spirits of a different sort, Thomas Brewer might find salvation and see a healing light for the first time.