The Director by David Ignatius (173 results)

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Trade paperback. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 349 p. CIA soldier Roger Ferris has come out of Iraq with a shattered leg and an intense mission to penetrate the network of a master terrorist known only as "Suleiman." Ferris's plan is inspired by a masterpiece of British intelligence during World War II: He prepares a body of lies, literally the corpse of an imaginary CIA officer who appears to have accomplished the impossible by recruiting an agent within the enemy's ranks. This scheme binds friend and foe in a web of extraordinary subtlety and complexity. When it begins to unravel, Ferris finds himself flying blind into a hurricane. His only hope is the urbane head of Jordan's intelligence service. But can Ferris trust him? From Wikipedia: "Body of Lies is an American spy thriller novel by David Ignatius, a columnist for The Washington Post. It was published by W. W. Norton in 2007. It was originally titled Penetration but was renamed after Warner Bros. bought the rights in 2006. Roger Ferris is a CIA officer who sets a trap for a terrorist responsible for car bombings throughout Europe. Referencing the real (and highly successful) Operation Mincemeat, "Ferris's plan is inspired by a masterpiece of British intelligence during World War II: He prepares a body of lies, literally the corpse of an imaginary CIA officer who appears to have accomplished the impossible by recruiting an agent within the enemy's ranks. The Christian Science Monitor described the novel as "happily original" for its genre, applauding the espionage detail of America's intelligence missions. The newspaper however criticized the underdevelopment of female characters in the novel and the "painful" romantic scenes. Adrian McKinty of The Washington Post described the character of Roger Ferris as "idealistic, passionate, wholly believable [and that] his adventures make for a story that is fast-paced and psychologically deep." McKinty highlights Ignatius's sensitive treatment of the Arab world. Body of Lies is American feature film adaptation of the novel Body of Lies by David Ignatius about a CIA operative who goes to Jordan to track a high-ranking terrorist. The film is directed by Ridley Scott, written by William Monahan, and stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe. Production took place in Washington D.C., Europe, Morocco and the Middle East. Body of Lies was released in the United States on October 10, 2008." From Wikipedia: "David R. Ignatius (May 26, 1950), is an American journalist and novelist. He is an associate editor and columnist for the Washington Post. He also co-hosts PostGlobal, an online discussion of international issues, with Fareed Zakaria. He has written eight novels, including Body of Lies, which director Ridley Scott adapted into a film. He is a former Adjunct Lecturer at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and currently Senior Fellow to the Future of Diplomacy Program. He has received numerous honors, including the Legion of Honor from the French Republic, the Urbino World Press Award from the Italian Republic, and a lifetime achievement award from the International Committee for Foreign Journalism. Ignatius was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His parents are Nancy Sharpless (nee Weiser) and Paul Robert Ignatius, a former Secretary of the Navy (1967 69), president of The Washington Post, and former president of the Air Transport Association. He is of Armenian descent on his father's side, with ancestors from Harput, Elaz , Turkey; his mother, a descendant of Puritan minister Cotton Mather, is of German and English descent. Ignatius was raised in Washington, D.C., where he attended St. Albans School. He then attended Harvard College, from which he graduated magna cum laude in 1973. Ignatius was awarded a Frank Knox Fellowship from Harvard University and studied at Kings College, Cambridge University, where he received a diploma in economics. After completing his education, Ignatius was an editor at the Washington Monthly bef.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. An exhilarating thrill-ride through the underbelly of cyber espionage in the vein of David Ignatius's The Director and the television series Leverage, CSI: Cyber, and Person of Interest, which follows five iconoclastic hackers who are coerced into serving the U.S. government. An Anonymous-style rabble rouser, an Arab spring hactivist, a black-hat hacker, an old-school cipherpunk, and an online troll are each offered a choice: go to prison or help protect the United States, putting their brains and skills to work for the government for one year. But being a white-hat doesn't always mean you work for the good guys. The would-be cyberspies discover that behind the scenes lurks a sinister NSA program, an artificial intelligence code-named Typhon, that has origins and an evolution both dangerous and disturbing. And if it's not brought down, will soon be uncontrollable. Can the hackers escape their federal watchers and confront Typhon and its mysterious creator And what does the government really want them to do If they decide to turn the tables, will their own secrets be exposed-and their lives erased like lines of bad code Combining the scientific-based, propulsive narrative style of Michael Crichton with the eerie atmosphere and conspiracy themes of The X-Files and the imaginative, speculative edge of Neal Stephenson and William Gibson, Zer0es explores our deep-seated fears about government surveillance and hacking in an inventive fast-paced novel sure to earn Chuck Wendig the widespread acclaim he deserves. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. Family-owned bookshop in Steubenville, Ohio: BookMarx Bookstore. Books shipped within 24 hours. No marks or writing observed in text. Binding tight and square. Gently read. . . . . . . . . . . . . ?In the Bay Area, Dr. Farr first served as Music Director of St. Markâ s Episcopal Church in Berkeley, from 1968 until 1972. He left St. Markâ s for All Saints in Pasadena, where he served as music director until 1979, when he returned to Berkeley to pursue and attain his doctorate in Theology and the Arts at CDSP. While he was a student, he served as Music Director and Organist at St. Mary Magdalen Parish. After receiving his degree, other Bay Area parishes David served included St. Lukeâ s Episcopal in San Francisco, St. Ignatius on the campus of University of San Francisco, and St. Dominic Catholic Church in San Francisco. Dr. Farrâ s final professional position was at St. Paulâ s Episcopal Church in Oakland. He observed his retirement at St. Paul in June of this year. This past year he married his long-time companion, Ed Roybal, who survives him. David Farr is remembered for his invariably upbeat spirit. He also had an incredible confidence in both his own abilities and those of the singers and players he guided. That is a rare combination of qualities in anyone.

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Compact Disc. Condition: new. Compact Disc. The year is 2085, and planet Earth remains on the edge of a nuclear precipice. At any moment, either of two vast rival power blocs, to the West and the East, might unleash a torrent of missiles, bringing about the terrible certainty of Mutual Assured Destruction. But there is another way or so Professor Ruth Drexler believes. Hence her secret mission deep inEastern bloc territory, to uncover a hidden city, never before glimpsed by human eyes: the Parliament of the Silurians, the lizard people who ruled the Earth before humankind.There, shell encounter a time-travelling Doctor, who knows the Silurians well. A Doctor on a secret mission of his own. CAST: Sylvester McCoy (The Doctor), Sophie Aldred (Ace), Bonnie Langford(Mel), Fiona Sheehan (Ruth Drexler), Nicholas Asbury (Chairman Bart Falco), Nicholas Briggs (Chordok), Caitlin Thorburn(Karlas), Ignatius Anthony (Gorrister), Louise Mai Newberry (Director Shen). Big Finish have been producing Doctor Who audios since 1999, starring Tom Baker, Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy, Paul McGann, David Tennant and John Hurt. The Silurians - reptiles who lived on the Earth before Humanity, and want to put this right - have appeared in the TV series several times, facing off against Doctors played by Jon Pertwee, Peter Davison and Matt Smith. Star Sylvester McCoy played the Doctor on television between 1987 and 1996, but is also recognised from such works as Peter Jackson's The Hobbit films. The year is 2085, and planet Earth remains on the edge of a nuclear precipice. At any moment, either of two vast rival power blocs, to the West and the East, might unleash a torrent of missiles, bringing about the terrible certainty of Mutual Assured Destruction. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Agents of Innocence is the book that established David Ignatius's reputation as a master of the novel of contemporary espionage. Into the treacherous world of shifting alliances and arcane subterfuge comes idealistic CIA man Tom Rogers. Posted in Beirut to penetrate the PLO and recruit a high-level operative, he soon learns the heavy price of innocence in a time and place that has no use for it. A "superlative spy novel" (New York Times) by the author of the bestselling espionage thrillers Body of Lies and The Director. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

grey & tan hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. very fine cond. mint cond. looks new. like new. as new. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first edition so stated. first printing (#1 in # line). decorative title pg. 333p. + about the author. glossy b&w photos & illustrations. endnotes. bibliography. true crime. psychology. hypnotism. mesmerism. criminology. ~Little Demon in the City of Light is the thrilling ~and so wonderfully French~story of the gruesome 1889 murder of a lascivious court official at the hands of a ruthless con man and his pliant mistress and the international manhunt, sensational trial, and inquiry into the limits of hypnotic power that ensued. In France at the end of the nineteenth century a great debate raged over the question of whether someone could be hypnotically compelled to commit a crime in violation of his or her moral convictions. When Toussaint~Augustin Gouffe entered 3 rue Tronson du Coudray, he expected nothing but a delightful assignation with the comely young Gabrielle Bompard. Instead. he was murdered, hanged by her and her ruthless companion. Michel Eyraud. The body was then stuffed in a trunk and dumped on a riverbank near Lyon. As the inquiry into the guilt or innocence of a woman the French tabloids dubbed the "Little Demon" escalated, the most respected minds in France debated whether Gabrielle Bornpard was the pawn of her mesmerizing lover or simply a coldly calculating murderess. And at the burning center of it all: Could hypnosis force people to commit crimes against their will? "What a hypnotic read ~ Steven Levingston has used an extraordinary French murder case to conjure up an unforgettable picture of Belle Epoque Paris and its sexual, cultural and supernatural obsessions. Like Erik Larson's The Devil in the White City, Levingston uses his "Little Demon" to illuminate a historical period and the strange issues that animated it. Meticulously researched and well written. this is truly a book that will take you to another time and place, contemplating bizarre characters and issues you never imagined." ~DAVID IGNATIUS, Washington Post columnist and author of The Director.

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Mass market paperback. Condition: Good. First Printing [Stated]. [10], 388, [2] pages. Cover has some wear, soiling, and creases. Investigating a murder in London, freelance industrial spy Sam Hoffman discovers a secret institution that hides billions of dollars that have been stolen from one of the world's most dangerous leaders. David Reynolds Ignatius (born May 26, 1950) is an American journalist and novelist. He is an associate editor and columnist for The Washington Post. He has written eleven novels, including Body of Lies, which director Ridley Scott adapted into a film. He is a former adjunct lecturer at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and currently Senior Fellow to the Future of Diplomacy Program. He has received numerous honors, including the Legion of Honor from the French Republic, the Urbino World Press Award from the Italian Republic, and a lifetime achievement award from the International Committee for Foreign Journalism. In 1986 Ignatius left the Journal for The Washington Post. From 1986 to 1990 he was the editor of the "Outlook" section. From 1990 to 1992 he was foreign editor and oversaw the paper's Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. From 1993 to 1999 he served as assistant managing editor in charge of business news. In 1999 he began writing a twice-weekly column on global politics, economics and international affairs. Ignatius's writing has also appeared in the New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, Foreign Affairs, The New Republic, Talk Magazine, and The Washington Monthly. Derived from a Kirkus review: This book is the third (after Siro, and Agents of Influence) in Ignatius's cycle on America and the Middle East. A read-in-one-sitting thriller with a philosophical streak, it's also a modern-day Robin Hood story in which Maid Marian fights and Robin Hood has his political consciousness raised. Marian is Iraqi Lina Alwan, a `trusted employee' at an Iraqi front company in London. Her boss is the corrupt and virtually unassailable Nasir Hammoud. Sam Hoffman, the son of a retired CIA agent, is Robin Hood, and he wants to stay out of dirty politics. Hoffman unwittingly gets Alwan into trouble. Once she is out of Hammoud's good graces, she must destroy him or be destroyed. But Alwan cannot bring herself to accept the warrior's mantle until the body count rises beyond even her fearful tolerance. She goes underground and becomes the key instrument in the undoing of the government that backs Hammoud. Meanwhile, Hoffman has to fend off his father and the Mossad. Ignatius, assistant managing editor for the Washington Post, spent years in the Middle East as a correspondent for the Wall Street Journal. His knowledge of Arab culture enables him to vivify the world of Iraqis living abroad as he captures all its elaborate manners, refinements in psychological torture (the parachuting episode is an especially creative example), and erotic flamboyance. At the same time he uses his knowledge of international finance to counterpoint the chase plot with the suspenseful elements of encrypted passwords, numerous Swiss bank accounts, and a slippery $158 million. Ignatius is both artist and craftsman. Lina Alwan is an unforgettable hero; the send-up of the CIA (especially Hoffman Sr.'s history lesson at the end) is hysterical; and the depiction of the Iraqis offers a glimpse into a dark and mysterious power that affects us more than we know.

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. A hyper-fast quantum computer is the digital equivalent of a nuclear bomb; whoever possesses one will be able to shred any encryption and break any code in existence. The winner of the race to build the worlds first quantum machine will attain global dominance for generations to come. The question is, who will cross the finish line first: the U.S. or China? In this gripping cyber thriller, the United States top-secret quantum research labs are compromised by a suspected Chinese informant, inciting a mole hunt of history-altering proportions. CIA officer Harris Chang leads the charge, pursuing his target from the towering cityscape of Singapore to the lush hills of the Pacific Northwest, the mountains of Mexico, and beyond. The investigation is obsessive, destructive, andabove alluncertain. Do the leaks expose real secrets, or are they false trails meant to deceive the Chinese? The answer forces Chang to question everything he thought he knew about loyalty, morality, and the primacy of truth. Grounded in the real-world technological arms race, The Quantum Spy presents a sophisticated game of cat and mouse cloaked in an exhilarating and visionary thriller. From the best-selling author of The Director and Body of Lies comes a thrilling tale of global espionage, state-of-the-art technology, and unthinkable betrayal. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Condition: New. A super-intelligent thriller following the cat-and-mouse frisson between a US secret unit and an unknown force operating out of Pakistan.INVISIBLE. They are the American government s most powerful asset, their very existence only known to a handful .

Condition: New. Roger 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 only as Suleiman .Ein Toter kaempft im geheimen Krieg.Bombe.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - The iconic landscape of the American Southwest reveals the luminescent Mitten rock formations, looming rock arches, and vast sagebrush oceans made vivid and memorable by writer Tony Hillerman, artist Georgia O'Keefe, and director John Ford. Professor Brad Karelius, drawing on forty years of college teaching, will guide you into hidden mysteries of the sacred as revealed by the Zuni, Navajo/Dine, Hopi, Hispanos, and desert mystics as you seek spiritual encounters in these desert spirit places.''Brad Karelius has mastered the art of combining a personal narrative with joyful observations of the natural world. His graceful writing adds generous helpings of both humor and humility to a story of adventure and insight gained from spending quiet time beneath the towering Western sky. Well-selected quotes from scholars and mystics underline the author's own observations about the links between the rugged beauty of the desert and the flowering of a spiritual life. This is a book to savor and to keep at one's bedside as an antidote to life's anxiety.''Anne Hillerman, author, Cave of Bones''I have found these personal writings of Father Karelius deeply moving and inspiring at many levels. The desert is here never less than a real place, but within its harsh and beautiful landscape we find also the wisdom of deep spirituality--learnt also from St. Ignatius of Loyola and many others. Innocence and wisdom come together in this wise for book our troubled age.''David Jasper, University of Glasgow''Brad Karelius has invested his well-lived life in an engagement with the Southwest desert. From that life experience he articulates deep respect for the native Americans who live there and their traditions, deep awe at the mystery of the place that he knows to be haunted in holy ways, and deep faith as he mediates between the Christian gospel and native American religious traditions. The outcome of his writing is testimony to the 'otherwise' he finds there, an alternative to the self-destructive ways of our dominant culture.''Walter Brueggemann, Columbia Theological Seminary''Here find a learned and seasoned guide to the deep desert offering so much to the seeking spirit.''John R. Stilgoe, Harvard University.''Part memoir, part travelogue, and part self-help guidebook, Desert Spirit Places relates how the soul of one inquisitive man finds solace and experiences healing in the harshest of landscapes--and shows how others can also experience that grace.''Richard Francaviglia, author, Believing in Place''There are deserts or dry places of the earth and deserts or dry places of the soul. Brad Karelius knows the dark beauty of both. Once we learn to enter them without judgment, we discover the other half of a life from which fear had deprived us. This is a book for more than lovers of the Southwest. It sings in multiple tongues.''Belden Lane, Saint Louis UniversityBrad Karelius is associate professor of philosophy at Saddleback College in Mission Viejo, CA, and an Episcopal priest in the Diocese of Los Angeles. He is author of The Spirit in the Desert: Pilgrimages to Sacred Sites in the Owens Valley (2009) and Encounters with the World's Religions: The Numinous on Highway 395 (2015).

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The Warren Commission Report on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy . . . was instantly implausible because the authors hid the secrets they knew (and ignored the ones they didnt). David Ignatius, Washington Post Book WorldThat recent appraisal reflects a growing consensus that the Warren Commission largely failed in its duty to our nation. Echoing that sentiment, the Gallup organisation has reported that 75 percent of Americans polled do not believe the Commissions major conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone assassin. Gerald McKnight now gives profound substance to that view in the most meticulous and devastating dissection of the Commissions work to date. The Warren Commission produced 26 volumes of hearings and exhibits, more than 17,000 pages of testimony, and a 912-page report. Surely a definitive effort. Not at all, McKnight argues. The Warren Report itself, he contends, was little more than the capstone to a deceptive and shoddily improvised exercise in public relations designed to prove that Oswald had acted alone. McKnight argues that the Commissions own documents and collected testimonyas well as thousands of other items it never saw, refused to see, or actively suppressedreveal two conspiracies: the still very murky one surrounding the assassination itself and the official one that covered it up. The cover-up actually began, he reveals, within days of Kennedys death, when President Johnson, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, and acting Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach all agreed that any official investigation must reach only one conclusion: Oswald was the assassin. While McKnight does not uncover any smoking gun that identifies the real conspirators, he nevertheless provides the strongest case yet that the Commission was wrongand knew it. Oswald might have knowingly or unwittingly been involved, but the Commissions own evidence proves he could not have acted alone. Based on more than a quarter-million pages of government documents and, for the first time ever, the 50,000 file cards in the Dallas FBIs Special Index, McKnights book must now be the starting point for future debate on the assassination. It should also inspire readers to echo the Journal of American Historys praise for his previous book: McKnights insistence upon remaining within the bounds of the evidence inspires confidence in his judgment. Based on more than a quarter-million pages of government documents and the 50,000 file cards in the Dallas FBI's Special Index, this book can be the starting point for debate on the assassination of John F. Kennedy. The author's insistence upon remaining within the bounds of the evidence inspires confidence in his judgment. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.