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


















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 ...