Mind Play

by Phillip Tomasso III

MIND PLAY is a brisk thriller in which TV news reporter Randy Cook attempts to defuse a complex network of mental controls that were planted when he volunteered as a college student for an experiment in hypnotic behavior. Ten years after the experiment, he runs a deadly race against himself to unravel the mesh of mystery that obscures his memory and dictates his actions.

236 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 2000

About the author

Phillip Tomasso III is the award-winning author of many novels, including Before the Sun Sets and Amazon Best Selling memoir, Nothing Good Happens After Midnight.

He lives in Rochester, NY with his 3 kids, works full-time as a Fire Dispatcher for 9-1-1, and is always hard at work on his next story!

Reviews

[Angie · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was a very well written book with some really good characters. The story follows Randy as he tries to figure out just what happened to him ten years previously in college. He is helped with Gloria, who is also having the same problems and she convinces him it's all part of the hypnosis study they were part of.

I felt that the book was good in raising the tension, I never knew who was being controlled, there were some surprises in the case of some of the people. And the way some people died, well it was bad, not a good way to go! I liked Randy and Jamie his wife, the mild camera man, who saved the kid, but has been suffering for years. So all in all a great book, with a fantastic ending, I'd recommend it.

[Judi · Rating 2 out of 5]

The real problem I have with the novel, though, is the plot's premise. Mind Play is based on the idea that subjects under hypnoses can be made to do things that they wouldn't normally do. Not that I am an expert in this field, but I was taught that under hypnosis you will not do anything you are not comfortable with. I needed this novel to explain, if not from page one, at least by the end of the novel, why these subjects would kill others (and themselves) under hypnosis.