THE BRAND NEW YORK Situations BESTSELLER

Interfering with the presidential election was just the first rung on the ladder.

The Russians don’t just want to influence American elections–they want to buy all. Former CIA agent John Wells confronts a storyline of astonishing audacity as New York Times-bestselling writer Alex Berenson goes beyond today’s headlines to tomorrow’s all-too-real risks.

It was supposed to be a terrorist sting. The weapons were supposed to be impaired. Then why was there so much blood?

The prospective was about The Deceivers the American Airlines Center, the home from the Dallas Mavericks. The FBI had informed Ahmed Shakir that his drug bust would go away if he helped them, and they’d supply all the weaponry, thoroughly removing the firing pins before the main event. It by no means happened to Ahmed to doubt them, until it had been too late.

When John Wells is called to Washington, he’s sure it’s to investigate the carnage in Dallas, but it isn’t. The previous CIA director, now leader, Vinnie Duto provides plenty of people working in Texas. He wants Wells to visit Colombia. An old asset there has details to share–and it will lead Wells to the deadliest objective of his lifestyle, an extraordinary confluence of sleeper cells, sniper teams, false flag procedures, double agents high in the U.S. government–and a Russian story to dominate the federal government itself. If it succeeds, what happened in Texas will be only a prelude.