The Faithful Spy: A Novel

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The Faithful Spy: A Novel

â€œA well-crafted page-turner that addresses the most important issue of our time. It will keep you reading well into the night.â€â€“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 Berensonâ€™s debut novel of suspense, The Faithful Spy, is a sharp, explosive story that takes readers 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 Khadriâ€“the malicious mastermind plotting more al Qaeda strikes on Americaâ€“Wells is coming home. Neither Khadri nor Jennifer Exley, Wellsâ€™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 CIAâ€“still reeling from its failure to predict 9/11 or find weapons of mass destruction in Iraqâ€“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 governmentâ€™s consent.

From secret American military bases where suspects are held and â€œinterrogatedâ€ to basement laboratories where al Qaedaâ€™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 todayâ€™s world, this is a uniquely exciting and unnerving novel by an author who truly knows his territory.

Country	USA
Author	Alex Berenson
Binding	Hardcover
EAN	9780345478993
ISBN	0345478991
Label	Random House
Manufacturer	Random House
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	352
PublicationDate	2006-04-25
Publisher	Random House
ReleaseDate	2006-04-25
Studio	Random House

The Faithful Spy: A Novel

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