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