Houston, TX, March 01, 2008 -- Released just three weeks ago, The Shell Game is proving to be another huge success for best-selling author Steve Alten. Hitting the NY Times best-sellers list in its second and third week out of the gate, The Shell Game is a controversial, political thriller that although written as fiction, becomes unbelievably realistic as a result of Steve’s diligence in search of the truth, backed by facts provided by insiders in the oil industry, military, and Middle Eastern affairs.  The plot lays out in vivid detail how this country, by a chain of lies and resulting events, is being led like a lamb to the slaughter toward another 9/11 that, as President Bush recently told reporters, will make September 11, 2001 pale by comparison.” The story follows one man’s courageous efforts to stop the madness, and the hell he goes through in the process. 

Many of Amazon reader reviews agree: ‘The book is terrifying; once it’s begun the reader will not be able to put it down,’ and ‘Steve Alten has done what few writers have the guts to do; written an incredible novel that can be interpreted as a courageous wake-up call to the world – shame on us if we are not listening!’