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