John Wells 05 – The Secret Soldier – Berenson, Alex

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Copyright © 2011 by Alex Berenson

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Berenson, Alex. The secret soldier / Alex Berenson.

p. cm.

eISBN : 978-1-101-47571-3

1. United States. Central Intelligence Agency—Fiction. 2. Intelligence officers—Fiction. 3. Saudi Arabia—Fiction. I. Title. PS3602.E75146S’.6—dc22

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

The House of Saud, which is the ruling family of Saudi Arabia, provides a central structure to fictional events in this novel. The descriptions of the rise of the House of Saud and its relationship to Wahhabi Islam are factually accurate, to the best of the author’s knowledge, and based on reliable nonfiction histories. However, imaginary people are intermingled freely with real ones, so, for example, Princes Saeed and Mansour are wholly fictional characters and are not, of course, the defense minister and the director of the

mukhabarat

, respectively, of the present-day Saudi Arabian government. Similarly, although King Abdullah is real, his plan to install his son on the throne—along with all other dialogue, action, and motives attributed to him or other members of the ruling family, whether real or fictional—is a product of the author’s imagination and is not based upon actual events. Finally, references to unidentified members of the Saud ruling family are also fictional and bear no resemblance to any real person, living or dead.

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