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	• The Faithful Spy (A John Wells Novel) Alex Berenson Jove, 2008 - 496 pages average customer review:based on 95 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Faithful Spy

I typically do not like spy novels, this is the best one I have ever read. Worth the read.

Nothing spectacular

I bought this book because of the Vince Flynn review, and I love all of the Vince Flynn/Mitch Rapp books. This book wasn't bad, but it definitely wasn't a page-turner for me. There really wasn't as much action with the main character as I had hoped for. It is scary to think about how easy it would be for terrorists to attack our country as they did in this book.

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WOW!

One of the best novels I have read in a long time--and I read two to three each week. Berenson has conceived a timely plot (al-Qaeda), fascinating venues (the Taliban in Afghanistan), and an action-packed writing style. But best of all, and this makes the author very unique among thriller novelists, he takes time to fully develop each character, even minor ones. This, plus believable dialog, makes the story come alive. From the first few pages, I knew these characters, I felt their pain, their sorrow, and their happiness. I cared what happened to them. With the multitude of badly written and poorly edited novels on the market, finding a book like this is a real thrill. It is worth twice the asking price--or more. Berenson certainly deserved the Edgar award. If Amazon had a ten-star category, this book would earn it. My only criticism is that the author could have taken time to develop the ending more fully. I felt that the characters suddenly lost the traits that had been so carefully developed throughout the book.

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This novel is well written, believable and fast paced. The hero, John Wells, was born in Montana, a convert to Islam and a CIA operative who over a period of time infiltrated al Qaeda in the mountains of Pakistan/Afghanistan. He was dispatched back to the U.S. to participate in some dramatic terrorist activities. Think dirty nuke/germ warefare. In the meantime, the CIA had not heard from him for so long they were concerned that he had defected. In the authors hands, the plot moves along at a fast pace and seems quite within reason. The author writes for the N.Y. Times, most commonly, I think, regarding medical/drug type issues. I couldn't help but wonder about the horror some of his colleagues at the paper of record probably felt about the succesful use of harsh interrogation techniques used on captured terrorists in the book.

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John Wells is the only CIA agent to ever penetrate al Qaeda. While living in the mountains of Pakistan, he became a Muslim, convinced of the decadence and shallowness of the United States.

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