Alex Berenson. Putnam, $28 (448p) ISBN 978-0-399-17616-6
Russia’s attempts to influence U.S. politics reach new extremes in Edgar-winner Berenson’s timely 12th novel featuring wily CIA operative John Wells (after 2017’s The Prisoner). When a massive explosion in Dallas, Tex., kills 398 people, U.S....
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Alex Berenson. Putnam, $28 (432p) ISBN 978-0-399-17615-9
Edgar-winner Berenson’s 11th John Wells novel (after 2016’s The Wolves) reinforces his status as one of today’s steadiest practitioners of quality spy fiction. The aging but always-ready Wells comes out of a short-lived retirement in North Conway, N.
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Alex Berenson. Putnam, $27.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-399-17614-2
Edgar-winner Berenson’s exhilarating 10th spy thriller featuring ex-CIA agent John Wells wraps up a trilogy within the series that started with 2014’s The Counterfeit Agent. With the tacit approval of the U.S. president, Wells sets out to kill...
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Alex Berenson. Putnam, $27.95 (432p) ISBN 978-0-399-15974-9
After an effective opening, in which bestseller Berenson makes the victims of a terrorist attack real enough to give their deaths an emotional impact, his ninth John Wells thriller (after 2014’s The Counterfeit Agent) settles into familiar terrain....
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Alex Berenson. Putnam, $27.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-399-15973-2
Edgar-winner Berenson's action-packed eighth John Wells novel (after 2013's The Night Ranger) finds the ex-CIA man on an Atlantic cruise with his girlfriend, Anne, to whom he proposes. Anne turns him down, saying he must choose between her or his...
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Alex Berenson. Putnam, $27.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-399-15972-5
The chaos of East Africa and the complex realities of relief efforts in that region form the backdrop for Edgar-winner Berenson’s gripping seventh thriller featuring ex-CIA agent John Wells (after 2012’s The Shadow Patrol). Wells’s estranged son,...
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Alex Berenson. Putnam, $25.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-399-15829-2
Edgar-winner Berenson’s compelling sixth spy thriller starring ex-CIA operative John Wells (after 2011’s The Secret Soldier) highlights an unsavory aspect of the Afghanistan war: U.S. soldiers who engage in drug smuggling while fighting the Taliban.
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Alex Berenson, Author . Random $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-375-50880-6
In the wake of Enron's spectacular implosion, the scandals surrounding the collapse of Tyco's stock price and revelations that WorldCom inflated its earnings by $9 billion, many wonder how independent auditors could have overlooked such huge
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Alex Berenson, Putnam, $25.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-399-15708-0
Those who can't get enough post-9/11 novels about a maverick intelligence operative trying to foil yet another Islamic terrorist group bent on cataclysmic mayhem will welcome Berenson's fifth thriller featuring John Wells (after The Midnight House).
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Alex Berenson, Author . Putnam $25.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-399-15620-5
After saving New York City in 2009's The Silent Man
, CIA agent John Wells, the hero of bestseller Berenson's exceptional espionage series, retreats to rural New Hampshire in his compelling fourth outing. He hikes and thinks, accompanied...
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Alex Berenson, Author Putnam $25.95 (418p) ISBN 978-0-399-15538-3
Bestseller Berenson's well-plotted and thoughtful third thriller to feature CIA agent John Wells (after The Ghost War
) finds Wells and his fellow CIA agent and fiancée, Jenny Exley, living happily together in Washington, D.C., content...
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Alex Berenson, Author Putnam $24.95 (383p) ISBN 978-0-399-15453-9
Having foiled an al-Qaeda plot targeting Times Square in 2006’s The Faithful Spy
(which won an Edgar Award for best first novel), maverick CIA agent John Wells confronts a very different threat in this pulse-pounding sequel from New York...
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Alex Berenson, Author . Random $24.95 (334p) ISBN 978-0-345-47899-3
After proving his loyalty in Afghanistan and elsewhere, CIA agent John Wells, the first Western intelligence officer to penetrate the upper levels of al-Qaeda, is assigned a mission on American soil by bin Laden's chief deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri.
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Alex Berenson, read by George Guidall, Penguin Audio, unabridged, nine CDs, 11 hours, $39.95 ISBN 978-0-14-314539-4
George Guidall’s no-nonsense tough guy growl adds a sense of hard-boiled reality to this fourth adventure featuring coolly efficient CIA agent John Wells. Working with his considerably more emotional associate, Ellis Shafer, Wells investigates the...
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Alex Berenson, read by George Guidall. Penguin Audio, unabridged, nine CDs, 11.25 hrs., $39.95 ISBN 978-1-61176-044-6
In this latest installment in Berenson’s popular series, former CIA agent John Wells is hired by the agency to go undercover and investigate deadly and divisive activities at its flagging facility in Kabul, Afghanistan. There, Wells discovers the...
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Alex Berenson, Author, George Guidall, Read by , read by George Guidall. Penguin Audio $39.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-14-314413-7
Former Edgar Award–winner Berenson returns with another top-notch spy thriller that is as realistic and unnerving as anything in the genre today. After his fiancée and partner is severely injured in an attack, CIA agent John Wells tours
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Alex Berenson, Author, John Heffernan, Read by , read by John Heffernan. Random House Audio $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7393-3360-0
Debut novelist Berenson is given fine representation in this intriguing audio book. John Wells, an American CIA agent, has spent the last decade of his life successfully infiltrating the inner sanctums of al-Qaeda. Guilt-ridden over not having been...
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Alex Berenson. Simon & Schuster, $26 (272p) ISBN 978-1-9821-0366-8
A novelist and former New York Times reporter, Berenson (The Deceivers) brings strong persuasive skills, acknowledgment his cause may be lost, and frustrated desperation to this antimarijuana manifesto. Berenson compiles the strongest research he...
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Alex Berenson. Simon & Schuster, $28 (432p) ISBN 978-1-9821-0369-9
Despite the title, Rebecca and Brian Unsworth, the protagonists of this cinematic standalone from Edgar winner Berenson (the John Wells spy novels), aren’t that powerful: she works in counterterrorism for the FBI; he works in software at the NSA....
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