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Graham Weber has been director of the CIA for less than a week when a Swiss kid in a dirty T-shirt walks into the American consulate in Hamburg and says the agency has been hacked, and he has a list of agents’ names to prove it. This is the moment a CIA director most dreads.
Weber isn’t sure where to turn until he meets a charismatic (and unstable) young man named James Morris who runs the Internet Operations Center. He’s the CIA’s in-house geek. Weber launches Morris on a mole hunt unlike anything in spy fiction—one that takes the reader into the hacker underground of Europe and America and ends up in a landscape of paranoia and betrayal. Like the new world of cyber-espionage from which it’s drawn, The Director is a maze of deception and double-dealing— about a world where everything is written in zeroes and ones and nothing can be trusted.
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"Another brilliant thriller from the Dean of International Intrigue. Deception, deceit, and dishonor-- doesn't let up and absolutely doesn't disappoint! I loved this book!" The New York Times
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"The best part of is watching Ignatius grab the history of American intelligence and use it to divine our technological future. Here's your chance to see inside the CIA. Sculpted with an insider's eye, shows you real people, real espionage, and the real threats to our national security." Brad Thor, #1 New York Times best-selling author of Hidden Order
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"[A] frighteningly convincing spy thriller." Publishers Weekly, Starred review
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"As a writer, Ignatius doesn't know how to tell a bad story. His unparalleled understanding of the intelligence world propels his work so far above others who dabble in the field that theres little comparison." Publishers Weekly, Starred review
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"Ignatius has given readers another compelling and enlightening look at what might happen next month. Must-read twenty-first-century espionage fiction." Kirkus Reviews
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"[A] frighteningly convincing spy thriller." Brad Meltzer, best-selling author of The Fifth Assassin
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"I'm not rolling a log or exaggerating when I call this the best spy novel I've read since John le Carré's e way back in 1979... I now intend to read everything that Ignatius has ever written." Booklist, Starred Review
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"A lively read." Philip Kerr Washington Post
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"David Ignatius's novels have always been a clef in the best sense: closely connected to, and very revealing and insightful about, the trends and tensions in the news... [A] page-turning read." Foreign Policy Magazine
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"Ignatius uses all his Washington insider experience to give his story its sharp authenticity." James Fallows The Atlantic
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"An entertaining, high-tech ride, full of theme park pyrotechnics and more substantial pleasures. As in his previous thrillers, Mr. Ignatius...injects the plot with his wide-ranging knowledge of history, geopolitics and national security issues, while giving the reader an intimate sense of the tradecraft employed by his characters." Michiko Kakutani
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"If you think cybercrime and potential worldwide banking meltdown is a fiction, read this sensational thriller and reconsider any investing strategy you might have." Daily Mail (UK)
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"One of his best... Ignatius has a gift for portraying the soldiers of the CIA bureaucracy in all their ambition, heroism and pettiness, and what he suggests about the nation's cybersecurity will keep you up at night." Bob Woodward Politico
Synopsis
In David Ignatius's gripping new novel, spies don't bother to steal information...they change it, permanently and invisibly.
Synopsis
Graham Weber has been the director of the CIA for less than a week when a Swiss kid in a dirty T-shirt walks into the American consulate in Hamburg and says the agency has been hacked, and he has a list of agents' names to prove it. This is the moment a CIA director most dreads.
About the Author
David Ignatius, best-selling author and prize-winning columnist for the Washington Post, has been covering the Middle East and the CIA for more than twenty-five years. He lives in Washington, DC.