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Winner of the Edgar Award and #1 New York Times Best Seller

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Publishers Weekly, The Silent Man

August 28, 2012 by Alex Berenson Leave a Comment

Published: December 15, 2008

Publishers Weekly, Dec. 15, 2008

Bestseller Berenson´s well-plotted and thoughtful third thriller to feature CIA agent John Wells (after The Ghost War) finds Wells and his fellow CIA agent and fiancée, Jenny Exley, living happily together in Washington, D.C., content to devote themselves to fighting the forces of evil. One morning, while stuck in traffic on their way to CIA headquarters, men on motorcycles attack them in their minivan. Exley suffers a serious gunshot injury in an act of revenge by minions of Pierre Kowalski, an enemy from an earlier book. Meanwhile, jihadists bent on destroying America steal two small atomic bombs. These extremely clever villains, per Berenson´s style, aren´t mad dog idiots but credible characters with reasons, at least from their own perspective, to be doing the great evil they´re planning. Fast and furious when it needs to be, this is a welcome addition to an excellent series. Berenson won an Edgar for his first novel, The Faithful Spy.

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Alex-BerensonAlex 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 ... read more
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