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A Novel of Espionage
W. W. Norton & Company
June 2011
On Sale: June 6, 2011
372 pages
ISBN: 0393078116
EAN: 9780393078114
Hardcover
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From the author of the best-selling Body of Lies and The
Increment: in a tragedy of revenge, the CIA falls victim to
its own daring operation in the Middle East.
Someone in Pakistan is killing the members of a new CIA
intelligence unit that is trying to buy peace with America's
enemies. It falls to Sophie Marx, a young CIA officer with a
big chip on her shoulder, to figure out who's doing the
killing and why. Her starting point is Alphabet Capital, the
London hedge fund that has been providing cover for this
secret operation, but the investigation soon widens to
include the capitals of the Middle East and the cruel hills
of South Waziristan. Sophie thinks she has the backing of her hard-nosed boss,
Jeffrey Gertz, and his genial mentor at headquarters, Cyril
Hoffman. In addition, she gets help from the well-mannered
lieutenant general heading Pakistan's Inter-Services
Intelligence Directorate. But the closer Sophie gets to her
quarry, the more she realizes that nothing in this gallery
of mirrors is quite what it seems. This is a theater of
violence and retribution, in which the last act is one that
Sophie could not have imagined. David Ignatius has written a disturbing and compelling novel
where the price of unchecked government is paid in blood,
and peace can be bought only through betrayal.
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