The Director

A Novel

By: David Ignatius

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Paperback | 4 May 2015

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384 Pages

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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. Weber turns to 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. The CIA has belatedly discovered that this is not your father s Cold War, and Weber must play catch-up, against the clock and an unknown enemy, in a game he does not yet understand."

Industry Reviews

"The best spy novel I've read since John le Carre's Smiley's People...I now intend to read everything that Ignatius has ever written." -- Philip Kerr - Washington Post
"A savvy, engaging tale in which the technology and tradecraft are as interesting as the characters." -- Wall Street Journal
"An entertaining, high-tech ride, full of...pyrotechnics and more substantial pleasures." -- Michiko Kakutani - New York Times
"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." -- James Fallows - Atlantic
"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." -- Mary Ann Gwinn - Seattle Times
"Another brilliant thriller from the Dean of International Intrigue. Deception, deceit, and dishonor-The Director doesn't let up and absolutely doesn't disappoint! I loved this book!" -- Brad Thor, #1 New York Times best-selling author of Hidden Order
"The best part of The Director 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, The Director shows you real people, real espionage, and the real threats to our national security." -- Brad Meltzer, best-selling author of The Fifth Assassin

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