Published: January 28, 2008 I was about 100 pages into Alex Berenson´s mesmerizing new spy thriller, “The Ghost War,” one midnight dreary recently when the familiar National Weather Service “BWAAA! BWAAA! BWAAA!” started exploding incessantly from a nearby radio, warning of imminent severe thunderstorms, possible tornadoes and the dreaded “straight-line winds.” As vicious gusts shook […]
Kirkus, Jan. 1, 2010
Published: January 1, 2010 Superspy and serial country-saver John Wells (The Silent Man, 2009, etc.) seeks to uncover the truth about a string of murdered operatives from a top-secret unit. Last seen stopping an Islamist plot to detonate a nuclear device in Washington, D.C., CIA agent Wells is called back to duty from a rest period […]
Library Journal, Jan. 1, 2010
Published: January 29, 2010 By Jonathan Pearce Berenson´s (The Faithful Spy ) latest ingeniously plotted and fast-paced story again offers superspy John Wells, who is called upon by shifty CIA superiors to investigate the systematic murders of members of a now-disbanded supersecret interrogation team known as the Midnight House. Our well-equipped hero deduces that both […]
Booklist, Jan. 1, 2010
Published: January 29, order 2010 By Thomas Gaughan …His characters are either deftly sketched or fully realized. His writing is succinct, with dashes of cynical humor. But the book´s linchpin is decisions made by the U.S. after 9/11 – decisions that seem to be sparking a flurry of outstanding espionage novels, with Berenson´s work in the forefront.
The St. Petersburg Times, Feb 7, 2010
Published: March 3, 2010 By Colette Bancroft John Wells is back, check lean and just mean enough. Alex Berenson has published three previous thrillers about Wells, legendary for being the only CIA agent to penetrate al-Qaida and for narrowly averting a terrorist attack on Times Square. In Berenson´s fourth novel, The Midnight House, Wells is living in […]
