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


















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 ...