The Reviews Are In
"Frighteningly believable" -- The Dallas Morning News
"Lean and just mean enough" -- The St. Petersburg Times
"Rises above the thriller genre" -- St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"Compelling... riveting" -- Publishers Weekly
"Vividly real and scary" -- Booklist
"Ingeniously paced and fast-plotted" -- Library Journal
"Action-packed" -- Kirkus
"Heart-pumping adventure" -- USA Today
"An extraordinary achievement" -- The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)
"One of the best espionage novels of all time" -- The Wall Street Journal
"The best spy thriller in a long, long while" -- The Kansas City Star
"Bullet-paced and psychologically engaging" -- The New York Times
"Superior entertainment" -- The Washington Post
"Terrific" -- NPR
"Will have readers captivated" -- Chicago Sun-Times


















Alex Berenson was born in New York in 1973 and grew up in Englewood, N.J. After graduating from Yale University in 1994 with degrees in history and economics, he joined the Denver Post as a reporter. In 1996, he became one of the first emp ...