"...smart, cool and cruelly funny" - Publisher's Weekly
Secret Agent Holden Carver is a man on a mission -- only nobody left alive seems to know it.
Holden Carver is part of a world-spanning secret organization headed by Tao, super-manipulator and ruthless criminal mastermind. He is also a sleeper agent, forced into a world of evil and treachery by master spy John Lynch, who now lies in an irreversible coma, the only living soul able to bear witness that Carver is actually one of the good guys. Now, ensnared in an ongoing game of cat and mouse, every day is a challenge for Holden to evade detection by those who think he is an ally, avoid capture from those who believe he is a traitor, and somehow survive with his soul intact.
What's a spy to do when no one knows he's been left out in the cold?
Written by Ed Brubaker
Art by Sean Phillips
Published by Wildstorm/DC Comics
160 pages
Collects Sleeper v.1 issues 1-6
ISBN: 1401201156
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"...smart, cool and cruelly funny" -- Publisher's Weekly
"A perfectly paranoid super-powered espionage tale" -- Entertainment Weekly
"Noirish, twisted, unexpected, an anti-hero for a hero, and just damn good on top of all of that. It's rare that a comic book can bust all the conventions of a genre. With SLEEPER, Brubaker and Phillips have shattered them into itty-bitty pieces." -- John Ridley, writer of Three Kings
"Quite possibly the most underrated title on the racks today... SLEEPER delivers non-stop entertainment from cover to cover." -- Wizard
"SLEEPER is to comics what the Sopranos was to TV, a breath of fresh air and a look at a familiar genre with a whole new pair of eyes." -- The Fourth Rail