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Sleeping: An explosive British thriller
During her charity gap year in Somalia, Louise is radicalised and brainwashed, returning to the UK as a 'sleeper agent' prepared to carry out unspeakable acts of terrorism.
Over the years she falls in love with a high-flying MP while also remaining loyal to 'the cause', helping a terrorist group attack the UK.
As the fog starts to clear, Louise refuses to help with further attacks, regretting everything she's done and committing herself to promoting the good in Islam.
The group demand one final act - to target the home and office of her husband, striking the heart of the UK Government - but her refusal is met with threats to her children.
Will Louise buckle and agree?
Or will she come to her senses and come clean?
Over the years she falls in love with a high-flying MP while also remaining loyal to 'the cause', helping a terrorist group attack the UK.
As the fog starts to clear, Louise refuses to help with further attacks, regretting everything she's done and committing herself to promoting the good in Islam.
The group demand one final act - to target the home and office of her husband, striking the heart of the UK Government - but her refusal is met with threats to her children.
Will Louise buckle and agree?
Or will she come to her senses and come clean?
364 pages, Paperback
Published July 8, 2025
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July 8, 2025
This book blew me away and is firmly in my top reads of the year, if not all time favourites.
I was so invested in the story, Louise is such a complex character, she brought so many emotions out in me - sympathy, anger, hatred, vengeful and strangely I liked her during the first parts of the book.
This shows that brainwashing can happen to anyone, Louise was an intelligent woman but she still fell foul of extremists.
The short chapters added to the intensity, as didn’t seeing the police working to solve the attacks whilst viewing Louise in her ‘normal’ life.
An outstanding thriller and the author is now firmly on my auto-buy list.
I was so invested in the story, Louise is such a complex character, she brought so many emotions out in me - sympathy, anger, hatred, vengeful and strangely I liked her during the first parts of the book.
This shows that brainwashing can happen to anyone, Louise was an intelligent woman but she still fell foul of extremists.
The short chapters added to the intensity, as didn’t seeing the police working to solve the attacks whilst viewing Louise in her ‘normal’ life.
An outstanding thriller and the author is now firmly on my auto-buy list.
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