The Director
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- $13.99
Publisher Description
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.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In this frighteningly convincing spy thriller from Ignatius (Bloodmoney), former entrepreneur Graham Weber has a new job: director of the Central Intelligence Agency, an organization suffering in "the post-Snowden era" of whistle-blowers and cyberterrorism. During Weber's first week on the job, Rudolf Biel walks into the U.S. consulate in Hamburg, Germany, and tells base chief K.J. "Kitten" Sandoval that "your messages can be read." Weber sends his brilliant technologist, James Morris, director of the agency's Information Operations Center, to Germany to meet with Biel, but Biel is shot and killed before he can be interviewed. The action revolves around the source of the leak Biel identified, which turns into a plot to hack and destroy the Bank of International Settlements. Why this bank? "Because it's a symbol of everything that has gone wrong since 1945." Ignatius builds palpable momentum and creates engaging, fully human characters, notably the fallible and conscientious Weber. Moreover, he writes with great authority on hackers' technologies and motivations, as well as the history and culture of the CIA.
