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


















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 ...