The Prisoner [Paperback]

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.Praise forThe Prisoner

“Berenson delivers some surprises along the way...Another strong mix of finely turned suspense and subtle character development.”—Booklist

“Deeply researched, fast-paced, and believable.”—Kirkus Reviews(starred review)
 
“The Prisonerreinforces Berenson’s status as one of today’s steadiest practitioners of quality spy fiction...The action culminates smartly [and] Wells is an appealing combination of brains and brawn.”—Publishers Weekly

“The John Wells series never gets old ... Berenson is a marvel, purely and simply. — Bookreporter.com
 
“[Takes] readers beyond where journalism can take them, even if the scenes and plots are imagined.”—The ló,