Gaslight

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Title:	Gaslight
Publisher:	Agent With Style
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Author(s):	Sue David & Valerie Wells
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Date(s):	May 2002
Medium:	print
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Fandom:	Starsky and Hutch
Language:	English
External Links:	Gaslight here online here
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Gaslight is a 133-page (32943 words) gen Starsky & Hutch novel by Sue David and Valerie Wells.

The cover art is by Dave's Studly Studs. There is no interior art.

From the title page: "No bribes of a week of uninterrupted sleep, petsitters that don't require you to refinance your house, or an Outback bloomin' onion at 3 a.m. were offered. Dammit. Laugh. Cry. Send LoCs!"

Summary

A series of disturbing phone calls from people Dave Starsky knows is destroying his sleep and slowly driving him mad. The calls won't stop, and worst of all, the people making them...are all dead. Terry tells him if he doesn't die first, then Hutch will die in his place, and his father wants to know why Starsky hasn't come to him yet, that he needs to save Hutch by sacrificing himself. Starsky knows these calls can't be real, but they sound so...real. Does he dare tell Hutch what's keeping him awake at night? Is he actually contemplating doing what the callers plead for him to do...to save his partner? Can Hutch make him spill the beans before it's too late and something dire happens?

Reactions and Reviews

This is a gen story that takes the theme of gaslighting to a whole new level. "To gaslight" someone means that you deliberately drive someone insane by manipulating their environment. That's what someone or something is trying to do to Starsky. Long dead voices from his past keep calling, urging him to join them on the other side because it's the only way to keep Hutch safe. Slowly, little by little, the man's defenses wear down until he doesn't know what's real and what's not. The ending will leave you guessing.