The Faithful Spy

Upon the recommendation of a reporter (talking about the most recent book), I picked up the the first story in Alex Berenson's John Wells spy series. Nothing wrong with this book. It is a fairly straight-up spy thriller. John Wells is the only CIA operative to penetrate Al Qaeda and the Taliban, but being in so deep means no one trusts him. And there is the jist of the story. The plot is serviceable and the writing is on point. But for me it just didn't have that zing. If I get some free reading space, I may try to read the next one, but I have a small stack waiting from the library right now.