Steven Konkoly's Deep Sleep: A Relaxing Audio Experience with Devin Gray

Spike: Good characters and premise however the book ends before the story h as finished, presumably so you have to buy the next book to find out what happens

United Kingdom on Oct 15, 2023

DJM: Devin Gray inadvertently is caught up in a huge terrorist network, due to his mother's death. She has done extensive research of a deadly network, now 3 generations of Russians who have infiltrated the US both in the private and public sector. The end keeps you dangling to see how this plays out as this is a series of 3 books. I'm hooked.......

United States on Sep 29, 2023

Walter Van Winkle: It was a page turner that kept me involved in the plot. It was easy to keep track of the story line.

United States on Sep 21, 2023

Someothercat: I had a hard time getting into this book but because I like the author so much I persevered and I’m so glad I did. Looking forward to book 2.

United States on Sep 11, 2023

tsgtmoon: This is my first book by this author. After reading all of Tom Clancy' s books, and ton of Mark Greaney, Brad Thor, Brad Taylor, and Marc Cameron, I must say, I'm looking forward to the next installment of the Devin Gray series. I gave it four stars not five because it took half the before I could figure out the good guys from the bad guys.

United States on Sep 03, 2023

Mr I L Hillyer: A fantastic page or kindle turner,great plot excellent characters and plenty of action so far,looking forward to continuing the series.

United Kingdom on Aug 27, 2023

David Beleznay: This story is a great action story, has intrigue, suspense and great pacing. It doesn’t get too bogged down in details and has a good conspiracy theory plot that seems relatively believable

If you are a fan of “the Americans” tv show, this reminded me of that a little bit from the other point of view

I liked the writing style a lot and found no parts extraneous or poorly written. The author did a good job writing it and seems to have a great editor. I plan to buy the next book in the series

Canada on Jul 16, 2023

lynguy1: Steven Konkoly’s first book in the Devin Gray series is disconcerting, suspenseful, and action-packed. It has aspects of both political and military thrillers as well as a conspiracy thriller. Devin Gray is a counter surveillance expert and a former FBI agent. When his mother, Helen Gray dies, she’s a disgraced former CIA officer and viewed as paranoid and unstable, even by Devin. However, when he finds what she has left behind, he enlists help from a long-time friend, Marnie Young, and a team of covert operatives. They need hard evidence before taking this shocking information to others. Devin’s mission becomes searching for a way to destroy a covert network in the United States and to prove his mother’s claims and clear her name.

As always, this author brings characters to life, especially Devin and Marnie. They’re intelligent, patriotic, self-confident, strong, and bold. However, they also have some shortcomings that readers find as the story progresses and their natures and backstories become known to readers. It was also great to visit with old friends from the Black Flagged series.

The prologue is a strong start to the novel with action, strength, and...

United States on Dec 08, 2022

David Makya: Ein FBI Countersurveillance Operative, der bei einer Operation mit einem Baton statt mit einer Waffe ausgestattet ist, verursachte bei mir die ersten Falten auf der Stirn. What the hell ...
Ok, dann stirbt seine Mutter, oder besser: wird bei einem shoot out mit einem sleeper direct action team ermordet, hinterlässt in einer letzten verzweifelten Action, ihrem Sohn Devin ein bunch of info über eine nationwide conspiracy, die sie seit decades zusammengetragen hat. Die Evidence, die, die deep in der society integrierten russischen sleeper der zweiten Generation, teilweise dritten Generation, in den Focus des FBI oder der CIA bringen soll. Natürlich wird Devin Gray zur Zielscheibe.
Der Plot ansich ist super, die Geschichte ansich auch. Aber, wie schon angedeutet, ein FBI Countersurveillance Expert, der mit einem Baton bewaffnet ist, später Tränen vergießt, bei einer Operation mit Berg und seinem Team durch den Wald stolpert und gegen Bäume rennt, Skrupel bei lethalen Mitteln hat, ist kein glaubwürdiger Held, eher ein Amateur, der mit den pros spielen darf. Es muss kein Rambo sein, nein, aber wenigstens jemand, der weiß, wie man professionell in combat agiert und...

Germany on Apr 04, 2022

Pat b: 4.5 stars.

Well that was fun! Just occasionally I like to read to read a spy/intelligence/espionage thriller with all the latest toys for the boys.

When former CIA intelligence officer Helen Gray kills herself and others in a shootout miles from home everyone thinks she’s finally well and truly lost it. After all she had been getting more and more flaky for the last 20 years. Then her son, Devin a counterintelligence officer, gets a time delayed series of messages and instructions from his mother. He follows her instructions and finds….her secret lair - an apartment she had rented that could not be connected to her and where she had laid out all her research into an unthinkable conspiracy.

As Devin scans the files and the walls he realises his mother was not crazy at all. She had done all this in secret to protect herself and her family. She had uncovered a decades old Russian plan to insert sleeper agents into the US and their children, the second generation, were already, or poised to be, in positions of great influence. The numbers were staggering and the implications were frightening. His mother’s friend and mentor comes out of retirement and puts...

Australia on Feb 02, 2022