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


















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 ...