{"product_id":"book-av30","title":"The Faithful Spy","description":"\u003cb\u003e“A well-crafted page-turner that addresses the most important issue of our time.  It will keep you reading well into the night.”–Vince Flynn\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e A\u003ci\u003e New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e reporter  has drawn upon his experience covering the occupation in Iraq to write the most gripping  and chillingly plausible thriller of the post-9\/11 era. Alex Berenson’s debut novel  of suspense, \u003ci\u003eThe Faithful Spy\u003c\/i\u003e, is a sharp, explosive story that takes readers inside  the war on terror as fiction has never done before.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e John Wells is the only American  CIA agent ever to penetrate al Qaeda. Since before the attacks in 2001, Wells has  been hiding in the mountains of Pakistan, biding his time, building his cover.\u003cbr\u003e Now,  on the orders of Omar Khadri–the malicious mastermind plotting more al Qaeda strikes  on America–Wells is coming home. Neither Khadri nor Jennifer Exley, Wells’s superior  at Langley, knows quite what to expect.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e For Wells has changed during his years in  the mountains. He has become a Muslim. He finds the United States decadent and shallow.  Yet he hates al Qaeda and the way it uses Islam to justify its murderous assaults  on innocents. He is a man alone, and the CIA–still reeling from its failure to predict  9\/11 or find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq–does not know whether to trust him.  Among his handlers at Langley, only Exley believes in him, and even she sometimes  wonders. And so the agency freezes Wells out, preferring to rely on high-tech means  for gathering intelligence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e But as that strategy fails and Khadri moves closer to  unleashing the most devastating terrorist attack in history, Wells and Exley must  somehow find a way to stop him, with or without the government’s consent.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e From secret  American military bases where suspects are held and “interrogated” to basement laboratories  where al Qaeda’s scientists grow the deadliest of biological weapons, The Faithful  Spy is a riveting and cautionary tale, as affecting in its personal stories as it  is sophisticated in its political details. The first spy thriller to grapple squarely  with the complexities and terrors of today’s world, this is a uniquely exciting and  unnerving novel by an author who truly knows his territory.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49340402794800,"sku":"BDav30","price":14.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/126888-av30-Square.jpg?v=1734043222","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-av30","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}