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


















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 ...