The Reviews Are In
"Terrific" -- NPR
"Vividly real and scary" -- Booklist
"Lean and just mean enough" -- The St. Petersburg 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
"One of the best espionage novels of all time" -- The Wall Street Journal
"Rises above the thriller genre" -- St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"An extraordinary achievement" -- The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)
"Compelling... riveting" -- Publishers Weekly
"Frighteningly believable" -- The Dallas Morning News
"Bullet-paced and psychologically engaging" -- The New York Times
"Will have readers captivated" -- Chicago Sun-Times
"Action-packed" -- Kirkus
"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 ...