Dreamraiders

Once theyre inside your head you can scream all you like but you wont get them out.Sometimes circumstances of life and death can cause a person to enter a supernatural realm a place where angels fear to tread a place inhabited by demonic Dream-raiders.Flawed detective Bill Thackeray forms an unlikely alliance with a female detective to catch a cunning serial killer. It is a case no other cop wants or understands a case where witchcraft sacrifice and murder coalesce in the realm of the preternatural.From Sydneys sun drenched suburbs to moonlit dark rituals practiced by a coven from scorching fires of the tinder dry Blue Mountains to the darkest depths of the evil alternate reality of a Warlocks primal mind this sexually charged tale of cops covens and corpses takes the reader on an original electrifying horrifying and darkly-humorous psychic suspense ride.A hard-nosed hard-drinking Sydney police detective crosses swords with a satanic serial killer who specializes in murdering little boys. DI Bill Thacka Thackeray has been chasing the shadowy Moloch for 6 years since the first time he was forced to examine the severed penis of an unknown six-year old boy. Thacka thinks he knows who is responsible for the shocking crop of disembodied young genitalia but since he cant find the bodies he cant prove it. Thacka knows hes in pursuit of evil but his police colleagues think hes a joke and his down to earth outlook cannot comprehend the extent of Molochs designs since they are beyond the bounds of any earthly understanding. The only ghosts Thacka knows about are the personal ones of his lost family who haunt his drunken nights. Hed never believed in anything but the reality of his police-trained senses but the spirit of his dead son seems more and more real as the level in the bottle sinks. Thackas failing career is salvaged by his new partner DI Jess Parker a straight cop with her own way of getting things done who against all odds starts to believe in Thackas phantom killer and in Thacka the man.Car accident victim Sarah Dixon is grieving her husband Wayne and praying for her little boy Russell in a coma since the accident and given up for dead by the doctors.Sarah is not the same since the crash that almost killed her too. She had always known she was psychic but is galvanised when she is able to enter the comatose mind of her six-year old son and bring him back. Thacka finds a bond with little Russell and even more so with the beautiful Sarah whose psychic abilities are flowering - not necessarily a good thing as her sharpening window into Molochs evil universe looks both ways. Molochs coven is penetrated by Steve a blundering oversexed ner do well desperate to embark on a writing career to impress his wife Niki and save his failing marriage but despite his feelings for her as she distances herself the coven is not the only thing Steve wants to penetrate.Just as Thacka has found enough cause to bring Moloch in for questioning the warlock seemingly escapes justice in a flaming motorcycle crash. Moloch is dying while his coven prepares a satanic ritual to transfer his ancient spirit to a new human vessel. Despite his earlier scepticism Thacka has now realised that Sarahs psychic abilities are real. He needs to know if Moloch is his serial killer and there is only one way left to find out: he has to ask Sarah to do something she has sworn never to attempt again - to enter the mind of a brain dead person to find the evidence of the murdered boys and to give Thacka closure. But doing that she will be risking her life in a fight against evil Dream-raiders.