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Alex Berenson is a skilled writer, but I can’t quite just justify rounding this book up from 3.5 to 4 stars. The Islamic terrorism plot is conventional and hackneyed. The novelty of having the hero be a convert to Islam doesn't wind up adding much beyond credentialing him to do some exposition. Unusually for an espionage thriller, Berenson tries to be middle-of-the-road in his politics, neither left-wing like le Carré nor right-wing like many others, but that just associates him with dead armadi
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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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