The Reviews Are In
"Lean and just mean enough" -- The St. Petersburg Times
"Rises above the thriller genre" -- St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"Frighteningly believable" -- The Dallas Morning News
"Terrific" -- NPR
"One of the best espionage novels of all time" -- The Wall Street Journal
"Superior entertainment" -- The Washington Post
"Action-packed" -- Kirkus
"Ingeniously paced and fast-plotted" -- Library Journal
"Vividly real and scary" -- Booklist
"Will have readers captivated" -- Chicago Sun-Times
"Heart-pumping adventure" -- USA Today
"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
"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 ...