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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. 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) 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. no reviews | add a review
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HTML: 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 No library descriptions found. |
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