The Deceivers

A gunman opens fire at the American Airlines Center in Dallas, home of the Mavericks, and the man behind the trigger believes he was working with the law. Ahmed Shakir was facing a drug charge when the FBI offered to make it vanish in return for his cooperation. They even supplied the weapons, quietly pulling the firing pins first. He had no reason to doubt them until the moment it was too late.

When John Wells is summoned to Washington, he assumes the job is to look into the bloodshed in Texas. Instead, President Vinnie Duto, the former CIA director, sends him to Colombia, where an old asset is ready to talk. What the man knows draws Wells into the most dangerous assignment of his career, a tangle of sleeper cells, sniper teams, false flag operations and double agents placed high inside the American government.

Behind it all is a Russian plan that reaches well past the meddling in the presidential election, which turns out to be only an opening move. The plot aims at nothing less than seizing control of the government itself, and if it works, Dallas will look like a rehearsal. This is a John Wells novel by Alex Berenson.