The Director: A Novel
By David Ignatius
- Release Date: 2014-06-02
- Genre: Mysteries & Thrillers
Description
A New York Times Bestseller. “If you think cybercrime and potential worldwide banking meltdown is a fiction, read this sensational thriller.”—Bob Woodward, Politico
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.
Reviews
Great!
5By RstierAnother intelligent and suspenseful espionage novel by Mr. Ignatius. This novel gives us a glimpse into the modern intelligence world of 1's and 0's and realistically portrays the dangers and difficulties of defending against competent individuals sitting behind computer screens.The Director
1By EllebeebeeOh, dear. Is David Ignatius too busy in these busy times at the Washington Post to bother to write a decent novel anymore? This was so so so disappointing -- predictable from beginning to end, very juvenile in plot and character development. Tens of themes wordily opened and dropped. Who cares about the troubles of the boarding school sons of the divorced father, the CIA general counsel's hair, and how many times we hear that the new generation of geek employees at the CIA get to wear t-shirts to work -- unless that is important to the plot? Such weird diversions (and more of them) get 5% (each) of text and 0% of consequence in the plot. Very disappointing.
