PERFECT NIGHTMARE

John Saul offers an accurate definition of the perfect nightmare: the kidnapping of a teenaged girl by a highly disturbed man, right out of her own house. It's a nightmare for her parents, who feel responsible, as any parents would, and a nightmare for her because a creepier kidnapper would be difficult to imagine. This is not a title for the faint-hearted; it hits too close to home, and current headlines prove that Saul's story is not farfetched. Susie Breck and Dick Hill narrate in tag-team fashion, both shining for separate reasons--Breck for her portrayal of both the girl and the girl's mother and Hill for the kidnapper, whose distorted view of reality is horrifying in its plausibility. S.D.D. © AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine [Published: AUG/ SEP 07]