The Director (Wheeler Large Print Book Series) - Hardcover

Ignatius, David

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9781410471062: The Director (Wheeler Large Print Book Series)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1410471063 ISBN 13: 9781410471062

Publisher: Wheeler Publishing, 2014

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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."

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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"

[A] frighteningly convincing spy thriller. "

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 there's little comparison. "

Ignatius has given readers another compelling and enlightening look at what might happen next month. Must-read twenty-first-century espionage fiction. "

From the Back Cover:

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.

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