The evidence that Gray’s mother assembled points to an ambitious Russian project.
From beyond the grave, Helen doles out clues to the location of a safehouse where, after a journey that occupies the first quarter of the novel, Gray and Berg find a room filled with files and surveillance photos. The messages take him to one of the few people who appeared at Helen’s funeral, a former CIA colleague named Karl Berg. Gray’s mother had the foresight to send Gray messages that would be delivered in the event of her death. The reader will see that she didn’t kill the deputy but she definitely kidnaps Wilson and does some killing before she dies.
Gray’s mother Helen was a long-time operative of the CIA but she lost her job after she came to be seen as “psychotically paranoid.” And here I thought being psychotically paranoid was a job requirement.Īnyway, Helen kidnaps a man named Wilson and apparently kills a deputy sheriff before shooting herself. (Other all-cap names of the kind that spy thriller writers love include DEVTEK and CONTROL). He’s a former FBI agent who now works in a private firm called MINERVA. The story does not end in the final chapter, so readers should be prepared to commit to reading at least one more book if they want to read a complete story. Published by Thomas & Mercer on February 1, 2022ĭeep Sleep is a “Russian sleeper network” story, a throwback to the days when spy thrillers focused on villains in Russia rather than China or the Middle East.
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