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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. Like the new world of cyber-espionage from
which it's drawn, The Director is a maze of double dealing, about a
world where everything is written in zeroes and ones-and nothing
can be trusted.
Hit men stalk computer analyst Lina Alwen and financial
investigator Sam Hoffman in pursuit of the knowledge the pair may
have regarding a late Iraqi dictator s billions. From London to
Switzerland, and from Baghdad to the mysterious corners of the
just-budding Internet, this spy thriller covers the map to uncover
a world of corruption."
In this latest novel from the "dean of international intrigue"
(Brad Thor) and New York Times best-selling author David Ignatius,
CIA operations officer Michael Dunne is tasked with infiltrating an
Italian news organization that smells like a front for an enemy
intelligence service. Headed by an American journalist, the
self-styled bandits run a cyber operation unlike anything the CIA
has seen before. Fast, slick, and indiscriminate, the group steals
secrets from everywhere and anyone, and exploits them in ways the
CIA can neither understand nor stop. Dunne knows it's illegal to
run a covert op on an American citizen or journalist, but he has
never refused an assignment and his boss has assured his
protection. Soon after Dunne infiltrates the organization, however,
his cover disintegrates. When news of the operation breaks and
someone leaks that Dunne had an extramarital affair while on the
job, the CIA leaves him to take the fall. Now a year later, fresh
out of jail, Dunne sets out to hunt down and take vengeance on the
people who destroyed his life.
For more than half a century, James Hamilton has been an active
participant and an inside observer of some of the most
consequential moments in modern US history. He has been involved in
investigations concerning Watergate, the Kennedy assassination,
"Debategate," the Keating Five, the Clinton impeachment, Vince
Foster's suicide, the Valerie Plame affair, Benghazi, and the Major
League Baseball steroids scandal. He argued against Brett Kavanaugh
in front of the Supreme Court and won. He has tales to tell of
power brokers, players, and politicians who helped steer the course
of the country.Written in clear, incisive prose with
self-deprecating humor, Advocate discusses the travails of
prominent politicians and other well-known individuals, focusing
particularly on high-profile congressional and other
investigations. Credited with developing the modern system for
vetting Democratic vice-presidential candidates, Hamilton recounts
his extensive vetting of vice-presidential, cabinet, and Supreme
Court candidates-including Joe Biden, John Edwards, and Ruth Bader
Ginsburg. This book concludes with practical, sage advice for young
lawyers entering the profession. Much more than a memoir from a
seasoned lawyer, Advocate is a richly detailed history of some of
the most sensational and controversial events in Washington
politics over the past fifty years. By sharing information and
insights known only to him, Hamilton fills in the gaps of
historical events while advising the public on lessons that can be
learned from the past. Anyone interested in the uniquely American
intermingling of law and politics will find this an engaging read.
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.
'Tension, suspense, betrayal ... Ignatius is the best in the world
at this' Lee ChildThey took everything from him... Now he wants
revenge.CIA operations officer Michael Dunne is tasked with
infiltrating an Italian news organization – headed by a US
journalist – believed to be a front for an enemy intelligence
service. Dunne knows it’s illegal to run a covert op on an
American citizen, but he has never refused an assignment and his
boss has assured his protection. Soon after Dunne infiltrates the
organization, however, his cover is blown. When news of the
operation breaks and someone leaks that Dunne had an extramarital
affair while on the job, the CIA leaves him to take the fall. Now a
year later, fresh out of jail, Dunne sets out to hunt down and take
vengeance on the people who destroyed his life. An absolutely
gripping cybersecurity thriller, perfect for fans of James Swallow,
Mark Greaney and James Deegan. Praise for The Paladin 'Ignatius, an
award-winning columnist for the Washington Post, brings his immense
skills as a journalist to his fiction, researching the idea and
enriching his plot with both the latest spycraft and the arcane
workings of, very often, the CIA' Washington Post 'Love for its
old-world suspense or for its ultramodern vision of technology run
amok, but love it you will' Booklist
Made restless by the tightening restrictions of CIA bureaucracy,
agent Alan Taylor oversteps moral and legal bounds in a top-secret
mission to destabilize the Soviet Union. His new recruit the
beautiful Anna Barnes, who struggles with complex feelings for
Taylor receives a deeper education than she signed up for in David
Ignatius s trademark world of shifting international and domestic
pressures, hidden loyalties, and secret agendas."
Roger Ferris is one of the CIA's soldiers in the war on terrorism.
He has come out of Iraq with a shattered leg and an intense mission
- to penetrate the network of a master terrorist known only as
'Suleiman'. Ferris's plan for getting inside Suleiman's tent is
inspired by a masterpiece of British intelligence during World War
II: he prepares a body of lies, literally the corpse of an
imaginary CIA officer who appears to have accomplished the
impossible by recruiting an agent within the enemy's ranks. This
scheme binds friend and foe in a web of extraordinary subtlety and
complexity, and when it begins to unravel, Ferris finds himself
flying blind into a hurricane. His only hope is the urbane head of
Jordan's intelligence service - a man who just might be an Arab
version of John le Carre's celebrated spy, George Smiley. But can
Ferris trust him? And can he trust the CIA?
Washington Post columnist David Ignatius is one of the most highly regarded writers in the capital, an influential journalist and acclaimed novelist with a keen eye for the subtleties of power and politics. In The Sun King, Ignatius has written a love story for our time, a spellbinding portrait of the collision of ambition and sexual desire. Sandy Galvin is a billionaire with a rare talent for taking risks and making people happy. Galvin arrives in a Washington suffering under a cloud of righteous misery and proceeds to turn the place upside down. He buys the city's most powerful newspaper, The Washington Sun and Tribune, and wields it like a sword, but in his path stands his old Harvard flame, Candace Ridgway, a beautiful and icy journalist known to her colleagues as the Mistress of Fact. Their fateful encounter, tangled in the mysteries of their past, is narrated by David Cantor, an acid-tongued reporter and Jerry Springer devotee who is drawn inexorably into the Sun King's orbit and is transformed by this unpredictable man. In this wise and poignant novel, love is the final frontier for a generation of baby boomers at midlife--still young enough to reach for their dreams but old enough to glimpse the prospect of loss. The Sun King can light up a room, but can he melt the worldly bonds that constrain the Mistress of Fact? In The Sun King, David Ignatius proves with perceptive wit and haunting power that the phrase "Washington love story" isn't an oxymoron.
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INVISIBLE. They are the American government's most powerful asset,
their very existence only known to a handful of individuals.
INGENIOUS. An elite unit of deep-cover agents, turning the tide in
the war on terror. That is, until they start being exposed, one by
one. INFILTRATED. And now a hunt to find the leak, before they all
go under.
When rising-star reporter Eric Truell accepts information from a
maverick CIA agent, he becomes enmeshed in an international trade
war in which even his own newspaper may be an unsuspecting
participant. When Eric's sources tell him there is a spy inside the
newsroom, he is tempted to cross a dangerous professional line and
risk his career possibly even his life to find the truth."
America's status as a world power remains at a historic turning
point. The strategies employed to win the wars of the twentieth
century are no longer working, and the US must contend with the
changing nature of power in a globalized world.
In "America and the World," two of the most respected figures in
American foreign policy, Zbigniew Brzezinski and Brent Scowcroft,
dissect the challenges facing the US today: the Middle East,
Russia, and China, among others. In spontaneous conversations the
two authors explore their agreements and disagreements. Defining
the center of responsible opinion on American foreign policy,
"America and the World" is an essential primer on a host of urgent
issues at a time when our leaders' decisions could determine how
long our nation remains a superpower.
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