Although Mike Nicol is renowned for his multifaceted, yet finely duplicitous storytelling, Sleeper propels him to new heights in his mastery of suspense and the clandestine world of politics and spies.
Book Review: Sleeper by
Mike Nicol – Penguin Random House South Africa
Reviewer: Marti Will
Sleeper is a complex
spellbinding thriller from a top-notch weaver of mystery and intrigue, Mike
Nicol.
Although Mike Nicol is renowned for his multifaceted, yet
finely duplicitous storytelling, Sleeper
propels him to new heights in his mastery of suspense and the clandestine world
of politics and spies.
Full of nuance, the story flows through Cape Town’s suburbs
and the surrounding Winelands. Sleeper features Nicol’s renowned characters,
private eye Fish Pescado and his on and off secret agent girlfriend Vicki Kahn.
Sleeper reveals an
intricate story-line involving South African politicians and their double
dealings, crooked local cops, the theft of enriched uranium, the kidnapping of
a top South African scientist, Iranian agents, the FBI and Isis.
Sleeper twists and
turns at breakneck speed, leaving the reader enthralled and guessing to the
very last pages, and then, Pescado sells Durban Poison to his mother on her way
to Russia.
A brilliant read from the top notch South African master of
mystery and suspense, Mike Nicol.
