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


















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 ...