The Prisoner
  • Published: 15 January 2018
  • ISBN: 9781101982778
  • Imprint: Putnam
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 544
  • RRP: $22.99

The Prisoner

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To unmask a CIA mole spying for ISIS, John Wells must return to his roots and go undercover as an Arab jihadi--and hope he can survive it--in the new cutting-edge novel from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author.

To unmask a CIA mole, John Wells must resume his old undercover identity as an al Qaeda jihadi—and hope he can survive it—in this cutting-edge novel from #1 New York Times-bestselling author Alex Berenson.
 
It is the most dangerous mission of John Wells’s career...

Evidence is mounting that someone high up in the CIA is doing the unthinkable—passing messages to ISIS, alerting them to planned operations. Finding out the mole’s identity without alerting him, however, will be very hard, and to accomplish it, Wells will have to do something he thought he’d left behind forever. He will have to reassume his former identity as an al Qaeda jihadi, get captured, and go undercover to befriend an ISIS prisoner in a secret Bulgarian prison.

Many years before, Wells was the only American agent ever to penetrate al Qaeda, but times have changed drastically. The terrorist organizations have multiplied: gotten bigger, crueler, more ambitious and powerful. Wells knows it may well be his death sentence. But there is no one else.
  • Published: 15 January 2018
  • ISBN: 9781101982778
  • Imprint: Putnam
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 544
  • RRP: $22.99
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About the author

Alex Berenson

Alex Berenson graduated from Yale University in 1994, with degrees in history and economics. After working at The Denver Post he joined The New York Times in 1999. In 2003 he spent three months reporting on the occupation in Iraq. He lives in New York City. He won the 2007 Edgar Award for Best First Novel By An American Author for his novelThe Faithful Spy. He left the Times in 2010 to devote himself to writing fiction, though he still contributes occasionally. Alex lives in Garrison, New York, with his wife, Dr Jacqueline Berenson, and their daughter Lucy.

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Praise for The Prisoner

Praise for The Prisoner:
"Deeply researched, fast-paced, and believable. Peace be upon John Wells, but only after he's helped defeat jihad once and for all. That's sure to extend this fine series." - Kirkus Reviews

Praise for The Wolves:
"Masterful...The Wolves is driven by a terrific and well-executed plot, but where Berenson truly shines is in his explanation of how certain parts of the world work. These would include spycraft and the dark tradeoffs made by governments at the highest and lowest levels." - Bookreporter.com

"Berenson's style is as seductive as his storytelling, and The Wolves has a bite that doesn't let go from the first page straight through to the last." -- Providence Journal

"As always, Berenson brilliantly blends global politics into an adrenaline-pulsing spy novel. But, most of all, there is Wells, a stone-cold killer who nevertheless does what we all wish we could do: stand up to the powerful and make them pay."-- Booklist

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