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Spiked - The story of a woman drugged with GhB and how she was turned into a criminal
The author shares her shocking account of how her life was destroyed overnight after her drink was spiked with GhB - a drug that can virtually turn anyone into a willing slave, combined with the potentially lethal power of hypnosis, gang stalkers on two continents, the latest technology for monitoring and recording all voyeuristic activity, outwardly "respectable" criminals send her on a journey into a 21st century hell which defies imagination, gravely endangering her physical and mental health and leaving her destitute.
Even while she is still outwardly compliant, she begins to understand that something is very wrong in the way she feels and what is going on around her. How does anyone survive such an ordeal? What are the effects on the victims of mind altering and so called "truth" drugs? How does a woman caught in the net of gang stalkers escape? How does she rebuild her life and start the process of seeking justice against the perpetrators?
Her only weapon is her continuity trained memory. Over the three months she was drugged, she mentally kept track of everything that happened like a continuity girl on her own nightmare. As she battles with the withdrawal from the forced addiction, the hundreds of pages she has mentally written down float around in front of her. In a race against time, she has to pick up the pages, number them and turn them into a book as fast as possible. This is her shocking story.
Even while she is still outwardly compliant, she begins to understand that something is very wrong in the way she feels and what is going on around her. How does anyone survive such an ordeal? What are the effects on the victims of mind altering and so called "truth" drugs? How does a woman caught in the net of gang stalkers escape? How does she rebuild her life and start the process of seeking justice against the perpetrators?
Her only weapon is her continuity trained memory. Over the three months she was drugged, she mentally kept track of everything that happened like a continuity girl on her own nightmare. As she battles with the withdrawal from the forced addiction, the hundreds of pages she has mentally written down float around in front of her. In a race against time, she has to pick up the pages, number them and turn them into a book as fast as possible. This is her shocking story.
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419 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 11, 2013
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June 27, 2013
Within the first few pages, I was pretty much spellbound! The storyline is absolutely brilliant! I had an immediate connection with the main character and could not put the book down! It will keep you on your toes and won't disappoint.
I guess you can tell by all of my !!!!!!s that I LOVED it!!
I guess you can tell by all of my !!!!!!s that I LOVED it!!
August 18, 2015
At first I had a hard time getting into this book. It felt like the writer was kind of "all over the place" and hings weren't making sense. after a little while, you realize that was how Ms. Gold was experiencing her life at the time. I started to pay more attention, and the story that unfolded was shocking and horrific.
I was originally going to give the book 4 stars. I added the 5th star because it takes balls to put a story out there when all of those people are still out there. It makes you wonder what other atrocities have occurred when very rich criminals with means get with other sociopaths. Thank you Sharron for having the courage to tell your story.
I was originally going to give the book 4 stars. I added the 5th star because it takes balls to put a story out there when all of those people are still out there. It makes you wonder what other atrocities have occurred when very rich criminals with means get with other sociopaths. Thank you Sharron for having the courage to tell your story.
May 29, 2013
Wow! this is a shocker. excellent work. a warning of the ever increasing danger of drug spiking. i have recommended this book to all of my friends - a must read. this could easily happen to you, your daughter, your mother, your sister.
May 11, 2013
It started slow, but once the 'scheme' started to unravel, I couldn't put the book down just because I had to know what happened.
May 30, 2013
a rivetting story - shocking - but real, so real you feel you know the author - you follow her through this cleverly masterminded crime story
June 29, 2013
Found this on the number one bestseller list - couldn't put it down. its a shocker!! ordered it for my sister and her daughter. A big warning!! Well written, excellent plot!!
September 20, 2013
Horrifying in its reality. GhB plus NLP = incredible and shocking story.
March 26, 2015
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Page turner would like to know more about her life after the book ends and how she is today thanks
Page turner would like to know more about her life after the book ends and how she is today thanks
July 26, 2024
Mysterious, Alarming and Confusing
This book reads like a mystery. The author, a successful friendly woman who loves to travel finds herself caught up in a plot by strangers masquerading as friends. Sharron is drugged unknowingly with GHB, a drug that renders one unable to remember, as helpless as a toddler and fearless. She is hypnotized, and horribly sexually assaulted as well as used in an illegal plot to smuggle things from one country to another.
I found this book difficult to follow and understand but I kept reading, hoping it would get better and I'd be glad I had. It jumps from one country to another and involves a variety of different people. The ending was not any sort of closure. I personally didn't like this but gave two stars because she did put time and effort into the telling of her story.
This book reads like a mystery. The author, a successful friendly woman who loves to travel finds herself caught up in a plot by strangers masquerading as friends. Sharron is drugged unknowingly with GHB, a drug that renders one unable to remember, as helpless as a toddler and fearless. She is hypnotized, and horribly sexually assaulted as well as used in an illegal plot to smuggle things from one country to another.
I found this book difficult to follow and understand but I kept reading, hoping it would get better and I'd be glad I had. It jumps from one country to another and involves a variety of different people. The ending was not any sort of closure. I personally didn't like this but gave two stars because she did put time and effort into the telling of her story.
December 4, 2023
"Every person should read this book. I had no idea something like this could happen. The confusion arises because Sharron writes from her damaged memory, detailing the consequences of constant drugging by criminals. After finishing the book, I delved into TikTok and found young people discussing GHB and how dangerous it is to be spiked. It can take your life. This book is excellent, highlighting social awareness. It's not a light story; it's a true account from one woman. I truly appreciate her sharing her story."
July 30, 2018
Sharron Gold was a continuity script supervisor for over twenty years in the film industry. It saved her life!
When she is drugged over a period of three months by a group of calculating criminals, her training helps her piece together the frightening events that unfold.
Her story is incredibly powerful and well written. I would recommend it to all women, particularly those who travel alone.
When she is drugged over a period of three months by a group of calculating criminals, her training helps her piece together the frightening events that unfold.
Her story is incredibly powerful and well written. I would recommend it to all women, particularly those who travel alone.
September 21, 2020
Wow
I read this whole book thinking this was true. Not until I went to the authors FB page did I realize it might be a fiction novel. But is it? She's named her protagonist after herself. Very confusing. None the less, it was a very intriguing story. Now I'll have to start searching to find out if what she portrayed could actually happen.
I read this whole book thinking this was true. Not until I went to the authors FB page did I realize it might be a fiction novel. But is it? She's named her protagonist after herself. Very confusing. None the less, it was a very intriguing story. Now I'll have to start searching to find out if what she portrayed could actually happen.
July 22, 2023
I have a lot of questions about this book, the biggest one being how they could have confused the author for a character in a book. There was also a time discrepancy where Sharron talked about healing from cuts from when she had been shaved months after she was shaved. Very odd story. It read like fiction to me.
September 17, 2017
Terrifying!
This story was absolutely terrifying, and o can only imagine the courage that it took to follow through with its publication. I hope many people read this and the jerks are eventually brought to justice for their sick crimes.
This story was absolutely terrifying, and o can only imagine the courage that it took to follow through with its publication. I hope many people read this and the jerks are eventually brought to justice for their sick crimes.
June 26, 2020
Spiked
The book was just o.k. for me. I have had it for a long time and decided to give it a chance.It is not like the usual books zI read which r psychological thrillers but it was fine
The book was just o.k. for me. I have had it for a long time and decided to give it a chance.It is not like the usual books zI read which r psychological thrillers but it was fine
July 7, 2017
Not what I thought it would be about. Rather boring to be honest. Did not understand a lot of it.
January 1, 2021
Loved this book I have reread it a few times , true fascinating story
June 11, 2013
I found this ebook as a free download listed under Memoirs/Biographies but the text claims that it is a novel (later the author claims that the story is true but that she wrote it as fiction to more accurately portray the central characters). The story is interesting -- a woman claims that she is drugged and hypnotized in order to unknowingly smuggle items into Europe from India. I don't doubt the possibility that this could happen, but it seems that perhaps the scheme is a bit grandiose for such a simple operation. The main character/author believes that it was a conspiracy between friends that were connected to some underground smugglers of some sort and set up a vast network of cronies to ensure that Sharron is not aware of that she will be transporting goods illegally. While some of it is very plausible, there are details like drivers being procured and several people in India (from drivers to tailors to the owners of the restaurant and various shops) are involved in duping her -- in fact, she believes that they have tagged personal items (like a necklace) with GPS trackers so that they can keep tabs on her and that they have hacked her laptop and tablet to utilize Skype to monitor her from afar and even provide subliminal messages/hypnosis. If we believe the core principal: that GhB was used to drug her, that would most certainly be enough -- beyond that, the hypnotism and spyware wouldn't be necessary. She would already be drugged and confused and easily mislead.
The reason that she believes any of this is because a man that she met en route to India, and further befriends throughout her vacation there, admits that he is drugging her and that her friends have sold her out. Without this tidbit of knowledge, she would not have suspected drugs or hypnosis and instead would have blamed drinking too much wine and memory loss (which she was experiencing prior to the trip). So the leap to GhB, while plausible, is only possible through this man's confession -- and if he was truly part of some sinister syndicate, why would he have admitted anything?
The story certainly gives the reader a lot to consider, especially in light of the effects of GhB, including amnesia and complacency, and the fact that it cycles through the body so quickly that it is undetectible after only a few hours so it is difficult to assess if someone has taken the drug or not. I will leave it up to you to decide whether you feel the entire event is a true story or a work of fiction.
As far as the editing goes, this book needs help. The author writes in the final pages that she was unable to pay an editor and makes apologies for errors in the book. I appreciate this, but there is a lot that could be corrected on a grammar/punctuation level without hiring a story editor. The author mentions that she speaks several languages, so it could be that English is not her most familiar dialect and that she is adapting other language composition techniques as well, but there are several instances of flat-out misspelled words and missing punctuation, in addition to the odd placement of dialog (again, this could be due to cultural interpretations, I am working from an American English perspective, where certain style rules are followed). There are also a number of European or British colloquialisms throughout that could easily be re-worded in a sentence to make them easier to understand. The author did add a few notes about Irish slang when it came up, although to me the words she explained were fairly commonplace (or could otherwise be interpreted by a wider audience).
My 2 cents: if I were the author, I would consider working with a story editor and really fine-tuning the pacing and chronology of events. Clean up the grammar and punctuation issues and write this as a memoir -- change the names of the people involved, if you must (they surely were pseudonyms to begin with) and tell your story exactly as it happened. This would give more authority/validity to your story and possibly help get the appropriate legal agencies involved.
The reason that she believes any of this is because a man that she met en route to India, and further befriends throughout her vacation there, admits that he is drugging her and that her friends have sold her out. Without this tidbit of knowledge, she would not have suspected drugs or hypnosis and instead would have blamed drinking too much wine and memory loss (which she was experiencing prior to the trip). So the leap to GhB, while plausible, is only possible through this man's confession -- and if he was truly part of some sinister syndicate, why would he have admitted anything?
The story certainly gives the reader a lot to consider, especially in light of the effects of GhB, including amnesia and complacency, and the fact that it cycles through the body so quickly that it is undetectible after only a few hours so it is difficult to assess if someone has taken the drug or not. I will leave it up to you to decide whether you feel the entire event is a true story or a work of fiction.
As far as the editing goes, this book needs help. The author writes in the final pages that she was unable to pay an editor and makes apologies for errors in the book. I appreciate this, but there is a lot that could be corrected on a grammar/punctuation level without hiring a story editor. The author mentions that she speaks several languages, so it could be that English is not her most familiar dialect and that she is adapting other language composition techniques as well, but there are several instances of flat-out misspelled words and missing punctuation, in addition to the odd placement of dialog (again, this could be due to cultural interpretations, I am working from an American English perspective, where certain style rules are followed). There are also a number of European or British colloquialisms throughout that could easily be re-worded in a sentence to make them easier to understand. The author did add a few notes about Irish slang when it came up, although to me the words she explained were fairly commonplace (or could otherwise be interpreted by a wider audience).
My 2 cents: if I were the author, I would consider working with a story editor and really fine-tuning the pacing and chronology of events. Clean up the grammar and punctuation issues and write this as a memoir -- change the names of the people involved, if you must (they surely were pseudonyms to begin with) and tell your story exactly as it happened. This would give more authority/validity to your story and possibly help get the appropriate legal agencies involved.
October 2, 2013
Sharron Gold's paranoid dramatic thriller is cutting, provocative and blood-tingling on many levels, not least of which is the ambiguity of its fiction. There is something so deeply knowledgable about its eclectic range of subjects---from obscure vacation spots to working as a continuity supervisor on films to the intricacies of customs regulations and how one truly might pass through tightly secured borders with contraband---that it further puts you in the state of mind of her protagonist, suspiciously named after the author.
Is this admittedly larger-than-life, massive and genuinely horrific conspiracy against her actually a true account? Could it be? Anything is possible.
The entire narrative is told from Gold's first-person point of view, a woman who has been drugged and continually finds the people around her to be dubious at best and pure evil at worst. She wades through a nightmarish and convoluted horror as a pawn in a scheme whose perpetrators spread far and wide and whose intentions prove increasingly ruthless and sadistic.
Its complicatedness serves as a quality in regards to its frightening authenticity. Fiction writers of her caliber, the Elmore Leonards, James Pattersons and Harlan Cobens, are marked by an ability to very smoothly and neatly tie their strands together in a deliberately satisfying way despite however gritty their content.
Gold is either truly uncanny in her ability to fully inhabit her gravely sympathetic protagonist or she is doing a dangerous thing by revealing things that are far bigger and more powerful than anything we may be prepared to believe.
Is this admittedly larger-than-life, massive and genuinely horrific conspiracy against her actually a true account? Could it be? Anything is possible.
The entire narrative is told from Gold's first-person point of view, a woman who has been drugged and continually finds the people around her to be dubious at best and pure evil at worst. She wades through a nightmarish and convoluted horror as a pawn in a scheme whose perpetrators spread far and wide and whose intentions prove increasingly ruthless and sadistic.
Its complicatedness serves as a quality in regards to its frightening authenticity. Fiction writers of her caliber, the Elmore Leonards, James Pattersons and Harlan Cobens, are marked by an ability to very smoothly and neatly tie their strands together in a deliberately satisfying way despite however gritty their content.
Gold is either truly uncanny in her ability to fully inhabit her gravely sympathetic protagonist or she is doing a dangerous thing by revealing things that are far bigger and more powerful than anything we may be prepared to believe.
September 30, 2014
Wow that takes the date rape drug to a whole new level of torment , it's important stories like this are shared and read to warn other women just what kind of low life's there is out there . Take heed and never leave your drink unattended at a bar or club , I learned this the hard way and as my story doesn't even compare to this story's nightmare , I was in a way one of the lucky ones in that I lived through it and have no memories of what happened to me just unexplained bruises etc the next day however if I could have remembered maybe justice could have prevailed.
June 27, 2013
Wow, what an amazing book. I highly recommend it - a must read for everyone. The dangers that lurk out there are so scary. Spiked was so well written, you are with the author all the way. I felt like I was on the nightmare journey with her. You are a very brave woman to write this, thank you for sharing this book. I can see it as a bestseller and as a movie. This could happen to you!!
August 28, 2016
At first this book was hard to dig into, which was very discouraging. However, I am so happy I powered through the first 10% or so of the book. it ripped me into the story and I actually was starting to confuse reality with lies. If it doesn't seem appealing at first just power through, it's worth it.
August 24, 2015
Katie London Sharron Gold's harrowing account will shock you to the core. This book is a warning to all of us. You follow her on a nightmare journey and feel her struggle to gain control of her life again. This is an important book for everyone, i highly recommend it.
November 28, 2016
2.5 stars
Despite the 'exciting' premise, I found this book to be rather boring.
Also, I dont think it was ever addressed why she didnt just knock on Betty's door?
Why would gertrude go that far to harm her...
Despite the 'exciting' premise, I found this book to be rather boring.
Also, I dont think it was ever addressed why she didnt just knock on Betty's door?
Why would gertrude go that far to harm her...
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
September 28, 2013
A convoluted story of travel with a shady lot of characters. The author learns she has been drugged with GhB and has been smuggling drugs. It’s a crazy tale.
February 24, 2015
confusing story but I finally finished the book.
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