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The Director: A Novel by David Ignatius
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The Director: A Novel (edition 2015)

by David Ignatius (Author)

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In David Ignatius' s gripping new novel, spies don' t bother to steal information . . . they change it, permanently and invisibly. Graham Weber has been 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 isn' t sure where to turn until he meets 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 fictionâ?? 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-dealingâ?? about a world where everything is written in zeroes and ones and nothing can be trusted… (more)

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Title:The Director: A Novel
Authors:David Ignatius (Author)
Info:W. W. Norton & Company (2015), 384 pages
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Author keeps reminding us that "Wong" is the driver and reiterates people's job titles and positions OK read
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  Sunandsand | Apr 30, 2022 |
.....just couldn't get this story untracked. Very slow to develop the plot in my opinion. Disappointed. ( )
  ChetBowers | Mar 10, 2021 |
This is my first novel by this author. I enjoyed the tale - though there wasn't all the much suspense to it, in my humble opinion. I didn't have every move figured out - that's too much effort. But most of the reveals weren't surprising. The story was engaging enough to warrant 4 stars. ( )
  TerryLewis | Jun 12, 2017 |
You have to realize that this book is a primer on: hacking, dysfunctional clandestine orgs, German hacker culture, international banking, street directions to secret organizations, badass domination, and Russians. Along with a theory about how the CIA was originally a Brit scheme. A plot stitches these elements together with your normal thriller type characters, and as a bonus you get to visit DEF CON. But I still only onestar it. (Remember flamboyant clothing is always a clue in this type of book) ( )
  kerns222 | Aug 24, 2016 |
A little historical tidbit I picked up from this novel (which I verified independently): the British Secret Service was instrumental in getting the American intelligence establishment in place, beginning with the OSS in World War II. In fact, in one secret British memo an outline was made of what the structure of the the future CIA should look like. The memo was written by a British agent by the name of Ian Fleming.

That British-American connection actually plays a key role in this novel, though it takes place today and involves all sorts of cyber-actions. There are conspiracies aplenty, not all the details of which felt convincing. But what do I know? Maybe in the "wilderness of mirrors" the comprises the modern spy business, these things happen all the time and the rest of us are just blissfully oblivious of them.

One lesson is that this is not a world for idealists. Idealism only blinds its adherents to become easily manipulated by those with more cynical schemes. There may be many possible outcomes to any particular crisis, but throughout all of them, the Man wins in the end. ( )
  kvrfan | Aug 19, 2016 |
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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
--FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY, CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
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For Lincoln Caplan and Jamie Gorelick
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Graham Weber first encountered James Morris at Caesar's Palace Hotel in Las Vegas.
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In David Ignatius' s gripping new novel, spies don' t bother to steal information . . . they change it, permanently and invisibly. Graham Weber has been 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 isn' t sure where to turn until he meets 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 fictionâ?? 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-dealingâ?? about a world where everything is written in zeroes and ones and nothing can be trusted

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