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In David Ignatius' 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 fiction - one that takes the listener 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.

©2014 David Ignatius (P)2014 Recorded Books Espionage Spies & Politics Thriller & Suspense Celebrity Fiction Military Russia Hacking Computer Security
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a good warning about the nature of our cyber security, how necessary proper oversight is on the process and the dangers of trusting individuals to do the right thing

good warning about the nature of our cyber securit

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It was sufficiently intriguing to be enjoyable - although the resolution seemed to be rather crammed into the very last chapters. And the plot was tied together rather too quickly. Regarding the narrator: he has a pleasant voice but his articulation was somewhat impaired. I had to replay some sentences to untangle the meaning. I will probably listen to another novel by the same author

Enjoyable

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The goings on inside the cyber world of dark web i found some of it complicated but worked it out eventually a good story line . Very good narration

Intriguing story with Twists and turns

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I found this book enjoyable and readable
Story line and characters was too light to be believable
An easy and engaging read

Engaging read

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Very enjoyable. Interesting storyline & characters with good narration. Nothing not to enjoy. Many thanks. Will look out for more David Ignatius books. 😊

Very entertaining

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