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The Faithful Spy (John Wells, #1)

Alex Berenson

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Jul 23, 2020 cool breeze rated it liked it · review of another edition

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 ...more

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