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The Counterfeit Agent

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John Wells goes undercover as the threat of nuclear war skyrockets between the United States and Iran, in the cutting-edge new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author. In an Istanbul hotel, a deep source warns a CIA agent that Iran intends to kill a CIA station chief. Quickly, John Wells is called in to investigate, but before he can get far, the tip comes true. Which means that the next warning the source gives will be taken very seriously indeed. And it's a big one. "We've put a package on a ship from Dubai to the United States. A radioactive one. A bomb? Not yet. It's a test run." As the threat level jumps and the government mobilizes, something still doesn't smell right to Wells's old CIA boss Ellis Shafer, and so he sends Wells on a private mission to find out what's going on. But the two of them are swimming against the tide. From Guatemala to Thailand to Hong Kong to Istanbul, Wells uses every skill he has, including his ability to go undercover in the Arab world, to chase down leads. But it might not be enough. Soon there might be nothing anyone can do to pull the United States back from the brink of war.

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      December 23, 2013
      Edgar-winner Berenson's action-packed eighth John Wells novel (after 2013's The Night Ranger) finds the ex-CIA man on an Atlantic cruise with his girlfriend, Anne, to whom he proposes. Anne turns him down, saying he must choose between her or his job, and soon enough he's off on a new mission to stop Iran from killing a CIA station chief. A woman calling herself Salome, who's working for an international secret agency that may have no ties to any government, is running the operation, whose actual purpose is to trick the American government into bombing Iran. Wells must go up against the CIA as well as the secret agency in trying to ferret out the truth, but he can't accomplish it all, so the end, while satisfying, almost certainly points to a follow-up volume. Thriller fans will eagerly await the return of the estimable, if romantically challenged, Wells to finish the job. Agent: Heather Schroder, ICM.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      The latest John Wells thriller takes the semi-retired CIA hero deep into a mysterious plot to move supposed Middle Eastern nukes into American cities. George Guidall delivers a solid, if uninspired, rendering of a story that might have benefited from a more active narration. His pacing is good, but his voicing is too monochromatic. While character definition is there, it lacks sufficient color. Much of the action revolves around hardly credible scenarios within the CIA and the unidentified enemy camp. Textural shortcomings are often substantially overcome by an inspired narration. Alas, not this time. M.C. © AudioFile 2014, Portland, Maine

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