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