The horror/thriller genre gets an unforgettable new twist with A Secret Handshake, an intricate suspense story about a man, Jacob, with a failing marriage, avoiding a mysterious torturer whose true identity he cannot possibly ever know for sure.Jacob, a computer programmer, wakes up one day to find himself chained to a bed in an unknown hotel room, alone and confused. After two days, he wakes up back at home. His wife, Carmen, tells him he left her a message saying he was going out of town on a business trip for two days. He even listens to his own voice message verifying what Carmen said.At first, Jacob believes his experience was a dream until, it happens again -for seven days! This time, he is tortured and abused by a Gorgeous Nurse. The Nurse starts talking a bunch of nonsense and stabs him with a knife. Once again as he wakes up back at his home, no one claims to know where he was and everyone accuses him of lying about his whereabouts. However, all the evidence (Credit Cards, Air-line tickets) show that he was gone on another business trip and was not at all in a hotel room. Furthermore, there is not a single scar from the stabs. Now Jacob knows for sure that something is not right. Carmen starts to believe that Jacob is cheating on her, with another woman and does not believe a word he says.Who are his friends? Who are his enemies? What is the truth? Could it be Carmen, his wife doing this to him? In Jacobs world, the answers to these questions shift and change from minute to minute. Until one day Carmen gets a few DVDs, containing footage of herself, chained in a hotel room, being tortured by the same Nurse.The more Jacob tries to figure out what is true and real, the deeper he sinks into a multi-layered abyss of uncertainty and surprises. The action and tension build rapidly to a shattering climax when Jacob finally asks himself, Whats my secret?
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