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


















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 ...