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Title details for The Secret Soldier by Alex Berenson - Available

The Secret Soldier

#5 in series

by Alex Berenson
George Guidall
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A #1 New York Times best-selling author and winner of the Edgar Award for best first novel, Alex Berenson turns up the heat with this tale of Middle East intrigue. Even in retirement, CIA agent John Wells proves too hot a commodity to be left sitting on the sidelines. Called to meet with Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah, Wells is lured back into the world of international espionage. And with a cataclysmic showdown between Islam and the West hanging in the balance, the stakes couldn't be higher.

  • Creators

  • Series

    John Wells

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    March 3, 2016

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781461825210
      • File size: 327986 KB
      • Duration: 11:23:18

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      January 3, 2011
      Those who can't get enough post-9/11 novels about a maverick intelligence operative trying to foil yet another Islamic terrorist group bent on cataclysmic mayhem will welcome Berenson's fifth thriller featuring John Wells (after The Midnight House). No longer with the CIA, Wells flies to France to meet a prospective employer, who turns out to be Saudi Arabia's king, Abdullah bin Abdul-Aziz. The king fears that his brother Saaed, the Saudi defense minister, is plotting against him to insure that Saaed's 48-year-old son, Mansour, succeeds to the throne. Saaed's scheming has extended to supporting the gunmen who just shot up a bar in Bahrain popular with Americans. Unable to trust his own people, the monarch asks Wells to find out who's behind the terrorists, a hazardous mission that action-hero Wells readily accepts. The plot unfolds along predictable lines in a story arc that Tom Clancy readers or viewers of TV's 24 will find old hat.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia believes that people are plotting against him, and ex-CIA agent John Wells accepts a mission to uncover the identity of the plotters. George Guidall narrates with experience and style. He provides just enough characterization to make it possible to distinguish the main players in the large cast of characters, which includes people of many nationalities. Guidall's narration is perfectly timed. The long expository passages, which are necessary to give the listener the background to the story, are kept moving by Guidall's delivery. Graphic passages, including descriptions of terrorist attacks, are made all the more horrifying by Guidall's carefully managed narration. K.J.P. (c) AudioFile 2011, Portland, Maine

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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  • English

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