David Ignatius

In David Ignatius''s gripping new novel, spies don''t bother to steal informationthey change it, permanently and invisibly.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 fictionone 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 fathers Cold War, and Weber must play catch-up, against the clock and an unknown enemy, in a game he does not yet understand.

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.

A MAN WITH SOMETHING TO CHANGEGraham 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 EXPOSEWeber''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 PROVEThe 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.

Rofer Ferris is one of the CIA''s soldiers in the war on terrorism He has come out of Iraq with a shattered leg and an intense mission - to penetrate the network of a master terrorist known as ''Sulleiman''... Roger Ferris es uno de los soldados de la CIA en la ''guerra contra el terrorismo'' Ha salido de Irak con una lesion en la pierna y una complicada mision: penetrar en la organizacion de un maestro de terroristas conocido como ''Sulleiman''...

En el mundo posterior al 11-S, el agente de la CIA Roger Ferris es herido en Iraq y destinado a Jordania para investigar a Al Qaeda, que está cometiendo atentados por toda Europa. Para ello, se hace pasar por trabajador de la embajada de Estados Unidos y establece contacto con el jefe de los servicios de inteligencia jordanos. La simpatía de Ferris por la cultura árabe y la postura de la agencia estadounidense comienzan a complicar las cosas. Ferris finge su propia muerte para confundir a Al Qaeda. Como reza la cita que encabeza la novela: «Desconcertar y engañar al enemigo ha sido siempre uno de los principios cardinales de la guerra.» Pero esta estrategia puede resultar peligrosa…

Temiendo un ateque en territorio estadounidense, la CIA empieza a mover sus hilos. El agente Roger Ferris es destinado a Jordania con el objetivo de investigar las redes de Al Qaeda y localizar a Suleiman, cerebro de una celula terrorista. Con el apoyo de su jefe, Ed Hoffman, Ferris preparara una red de mentiras en torno al cadaver de un imaginario oficial de la CIA. Si el plan funcionara, la propia Al Qaeda eliminaria a Suleiman y asesinaria un golpe devastador a sus operaciones. La unica opcion segura de Ferris es el astuto y amable jefe de los servicios de inteligencia jordanos, Hani Salaam. Pero¿podra Ferris confiar en el o estara siendo victima de su propia trampa?