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


















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 ...