Sleeper 13 (Sleeper13, #1) by Rob Sinclair

From Goodreads

An action-packed and utterly gripping thriller from the bestselling author of The Enemy Series. 

As a child he was smuggled to the Middle East from his London home, to be trained as one of the most elite insurgent soldiers of his generation. 


For years he was forced to do things no child should do, for a cause he couldn't believe in.

But while his brothers were preparing to kill, he was looking for a way out.

Now, on the eve of the deadliest coordinated terrorist attacks Europe has ever seen, he'll finally get his chance.

He will break free and hunt down those responsible for making him a monster.

He must draw on all his training, all of his deadly skills to survive.

He is Sleeper 13. 

My thoughts

This is certainly a book that will grip you from the first few pages and keep you gripped all the way through. I gave this a 4 stars or 8/10. It's full of action and is fast paced, told as a dual time frame story. The reader is fed the past and present simultaneously.

Sleeper 13, is a deadly weapon, he is a trained assassin. Split up from his family at a young age and taken to live in the Middle East, he has been brain washed in some ways and trained in the ways of how to become a killing machine by the Teacher. However, Sleeper 13 (Aydin) might be an even greater weapon as he knows the identities of the other Sleepers.

Rachel, is an English agent tasked with trying to find out what's happening and seems to be on an almost parallel path. Her job is to try and stop the work of people like Sleeper 13, before they wreak the damage that they are trained to carry out.

This was quite an insightful story, that explores the psychological stresses that individuals go through during their training and brain washing by others, who are determined to use people to carry out the atrocities that are sadly becoming more and more common in today's world.

I found it a well written story, that kept me wanting to find out more and more about Sleeper 13. It's definitely a page turner and I already have a copy of the Fugitive (Sleeper 13, #2), I look forward to immersing myself back in the world of Sleeper 13 and Rachel.