Your cart

Close

Total AUD

Checkout

Imprint

  • Quercus
  • Quercus

The Director

David Ignatius

4 Reviews

Rated 0

Fiction, Espionage & spy thriller

A Tinker, Tailor for the Snowden and WikiLeaks era.

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.

Read More Read Less

Praise for The Director

  • The best spy novel I've read since John Le Carre's Smiley's People . . . I now intend to read everything that Ignatius has ever written. - Washington Post

  • Ignatius injects the plot with his wide-ranging knowledge . . . giving the reader an intimate sense of the tradecraft employed by his characters. - New York Times

  • A savvy, engaging tale in which the technology and tradecraft are as interesting as the characters. - Wall Street Journal

  • Must-read twenty-first century espionage. - Booklist

Read More Read Less
This website uses cookies. Using this website means you are okay with this but you can find out more and learn how to manage your cookie choices here.Close cookie policy overlay