false 341553 9 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 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 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. 2890073 2006 The Faithful Spy (John Wells, #1) total:456|5:95|4:184|3:140|2:29|1:8| 456 1697 630 104 1 2 false false Wed Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Tue Jul 24 21:09:49 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 24 21:26:55 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Mar 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 25 12:14:23 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 26 00:20:57 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sun Jan 06 14:02:01 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 06 14:09:06 -0800 2008
Terrorists, bombs, lies, and germs. The submarines and fighter jets of today.

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* He does a nice job of developing his characters; both central and peripheral. Each character is set up with a background and perspective - through vignettes and internal dialogs - that give the reader insight into thei...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jul 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 29 14:10:47 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 19 14:53:41 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 true false Thu Dec 18 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 18 19:18:57 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 18 19:22:59 -0800 2008 1 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue May 19 07:36:23 -0700 2009 Tue May 19 07:43:21 -0700 2009
The hero, John Wells, is an American CIA agent who goes undercover in the A...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jun 29 08:19:48 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 29 08:32:16 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon May 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon May 25 19:32:33 -0700 2009 Mon May 25 19:48:06 -0700 2009 lot of research at the base of the book.

Military-style readings are not my style. But from the pick up...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 20 19:39:50 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 20 19:40:30 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue May 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 03 09:06:45 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 03 09:11:47 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 25 12:22:57 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 12 05:40:57 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Jun 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed May 27 17:45:48 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 09 15:45:24 -0700 2009 It's funny how all the authors that write these stories on Muslims aren't Muslim, and that's why they are so judgemental.
I liked this book and the situatio...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed May 21 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Dec 01 05:07:31 -0800 2007 Fri May 30 08:09:27 -0700 2008 TITLE/AUTHOR: THE FAITHFUL SPY by Alex Berenson
RATING: 4.5/B+
GENRE/PUB DATE/# OF PGS: Suspense/2006/331 pgs
SERIES/STAND ALONE: #1 John Wells, CIA undercover agent
TIME/PLACE: Post 9/11/Afghanistan
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