SLEEPER

In his second novel, Gene Riehl, at one time an FBI agent who specialized in counterintelligence and counterespionage, thrusts the listener into heightened awareness as a "sleeper" terrorist is wrenched from her perfect life and ordered to begin carrying out violence. David Colacci breathes life into FBI Special Agent Puller Monk, who having "gone rogue," follows his own "Quantico rules" as he works in the shadows to stop Sung Kim from achieving her goals. Colacci masterfully adds depth to Monk's complex character. He's a man who, after blithely jumping out of a plane without a parachute, struggles with his own feelings of near hysteria inside an MRI tube. K.A.T. © AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine [Published: JUNE/JULY 05]