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