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Title: Entertaining and riveting; ignore the Wash Post review
Review: First of all, dismiss the review by the Wash Post book reviewer...that is an arrogantly written, self serving review irrelevant to the novel.The Sleeper was a good, fun read that is easy to follow but with a final showdown that was sort of cloudy and difficult to discern clearly. Dickey does a fine job of mixing action with stream of consciousness thoughts from his 1st person narrator. The narrator is a former Army Ranger who also had become enmeshed in Muslim religion and radicalism while fighting for the Muslims in Bosnia. He has a unique perspective on the war against terror, and his former relationships make him a key weapon of the US side. After 9/11, he departs his quaint Kansas life and returns to the battlefront. This book delivers all you want in a suspenseful, well-written novel. It makes me wish Dickey would write a non-fiction book on his insights into the war on terror.
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