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Narrated by:
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Robertson Dean
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By:
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Alex Berenson
“A well-crafted page-turner that addresses the most important issue of our time. It will keep you reading well into the night.” (Vince Flynn)
A New York Times reporter has drawn upon his experience covering the occupation in Iraq to write the most gripping and chillingly plausible thriller of the post-9/11 era. Alex Berenson’s debut novel of suspense, The Faithful Spy, is a sharp, explosive story that takes listeners inside the war on terror as fiction has never done before.
John Wells is the only American CIA agent ever to penetrate al Qaeda. Since before the attacks in 2001, Wells has been hiding in the mountains of Pakistan, biding his time, building his cover. Now, on the orders of Omar Khadri - the malicious mastermind plotting more al Qaeda strikes on America - Wells is coming home. Neither Khadri nor Jennifer Exley, Wells’s superior at Langley, knows quite what to expect. For Wells has changed during his years in the mountains. He has become a Muslim. He finds the United States decadent and shallow.
Yet he hates al Qaeda and the way it uses Islam to justify its murderous assaults on innocents. He is a man alone, and the CIA - still reeling from its failure to predict 9/11 or find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq - does not know whether to trust him. Among his handlers at Langley, only Exley believes in him, and even she sometimes wonders. And so the agency freezes Wells out, preferring to rely on high-tech means for gathering intelligence. But as that strategy fails and Khadri moves closer to unleashing the most devastating terrorist attack in history, Wells and Exley must somehow find a way to stop him, with or without the government’s consent.
From secret American military bases where suspects are held and “interrogated” to basement laboratories where al Qaeda’s scientists grow the deadliest of biological weapons, The Faithful Spy is a riveting and cautionary tale, as affecting in its personal stories as it is sophisticated in its political details. The first spy thriller to grapple squarely with the complexities and terrors of today’s world, this is a uniquely exciting and unnerving novel by an author who truly knows his territory.
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Editorial reviews
Why We Think It's Essential: Thanks to Robertson Dean's menacing narration, this gripping, thinking-person's thriller about a CIA operative deep undercover in al Qaeda is frighteningly real. Once you start listening, you'll find yourself sitting in the driveway with the engine still running. --Steve Feldberg
Critic reviews
“A well-crafted page-turner that addresses the most important issue of our time. It will keep you reading well into the night.” (Vince Flynn)
“Berenson offers a very American story - a sort of terrorist High Noon...exciting.” (The New York Times)
“A hold-your-breath thriller...a grabber.” (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
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Great Spy Character, Great Story
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Berenson has won an Edgar award and so I expected better. While this book isn't driven by sex scenes or much pointless gore, it just doesn't have much in it that was very interesting to me. The descriptions of the methods and plots of the terrorists were adequately captivating and terrifying, by far the most interesting aspects of the book, but the rest of the story was a trudge.
I found the characters to be shallow and unengaging, the plot mundane and predictable. Berenson's powers of description rate a C at best. I'm still chuckling at the image of the hero lying critically ill and wounded while his boss is "hopping around the hospital room on his skinny legs"; and wondering what sort of noise the heroine made that was "between a grunt and a sigh". The stereotypical stoic hero, bad boss, love at first sight, and evil terrorists are all included and nothing about any of them is intriguing, and so none of them are very memorable. I'll be surprised if I have any recollection of this book in six weeks and I certainly won't be looking for "more like this".
The narration is within the realm of what seems to be considered competent, but no better than that. For me, this was a mediocre listen. It is, at best, a pretty standard thriller. Looking back at the promotion and other comments I think I should have been able to surmise that.
I suppose it's unfair to be dissappointed
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The Faithful Spy
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Really enjoyed this, recommended
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good not great
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realistic, patriotic glimpse of our brave
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A really good book
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G00d for the genre.
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I was wrong.
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ABSORBING -!Mr. Berenson captures the
very ESSENCE of the CLIMATE of TODAY'S
VICISSITUDES OF TIME AND CAPRICES OF
MEN. HIGH PRAISE. Joyce N. Eichenberg
The Faithful Spy by A lex Berenson
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