The Director

(Paperback)

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A MAN WITH SOMETHING TO CHANGE

Graham Weber, the new director of the CIA, is tasked with revolutionising an agency in crisis. Never intimidated by a challenge, Weber intends to do just that.

A HACKER WITH SOMETHING TO EXPOSE

Weber's task greatens when a young computer genius approaches the CIA with proof their systems have been compromised. There is a breach. There is a mole.

A WOMAN WITH SOMETHING TO PROVE

The agent who takes this walk-in is K. J. Sandoval - a frustrated yet ambitious base chief desperate to prove her worth to the agency and its new director.

Weber must move quickly. And he must choose his allies carefully, if he is to succeed in identifying an enemy that is inside the gates, and out to destroy him.

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. - Washington Post

Ignatius injects the plot with his wide-ranging knowledge . . . giving the reader an intimate sense of the tradecraft employed by his characters. - New York Times

A savvy, engaging tale in which the technology and tradecraft are as interesting as the characters. - Wall Street Journal

Must-read twenty-first century espionage. - Booklist

Author Bio

David Ignatius is a prize-winning columnist for the Washington Post, and has been covering the Middle East and the CIA for more than twenty-five years. He is the author of several novels, including Agents of Innocence