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My rating: 3 ½ terrorists.
John Wells is a complicated man, a man of irony. Living in Afghanistan and Pakistan with tribal members, a Muslim convert, absent father, and American, all make for an interesting plot. The first ¾ was fantastic, but slowed down toward the end. Still, it was a fun read.
John Wells is a complicated man, a man of irony. Living in Afghanistan and Pakistan with tribal members, a Muslim convert, absent father, and American, all make for an interesting plot. The first ¾ was fantastic, but slowed down toward the end. Still, it was a fun read.
What drew me to this book was the exciting premise of a CIA officer in Afghanistan under deep cover within al Qaeda being dispatched to the US to perform a terrorist act. Berenson gives us a largely believable hero in John Wells. A little less convincing was Wells' lapsed romantic entanglement with his colleague. (I know the hero always has to have significant other and having been under cover in hostile territory for many years puts a damper on dating opportunities.) As for the terrorists and t
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