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


















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 ...