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The Director

By: David Ignatius
Narrated by: George Guidall
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Publisher's summary

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

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Well modulated performance

There is a diverse cast of characters in this compelling page turner that are well performed by George Guidall. Vivid and modulated, he brings this cyber-thriller alive and makes it a very entertaining read.

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Anticlimactic

Slow throughout and a bit disappointing at the end/climax, but still an entertaining story. As usual, George Guidall does not disappoint, amazing narrator.

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The Deep State

A chilling look at the Deep State and ways it operates. I'm sure Ignatius as a reporter for the Washington Post knows about such things. I'm glad his book turned out well with the Bad Guy getting what he deserved and the Good Guy triumphing. Unfortunately, this most likely doesn't often happen in real life, sad to say.

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New genre for me and I love this book!

I don't usually listen to this kind of spy suspense novel but I think because this one was about cyber crime, it made a difference. It was really good and I didn't guess the outcome, which is my way of judging whether a book was really good or not. the narrator was really really good to which added to the success.

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Stick with it!

Took a while to get into but worth it. Drawn out in places but overall excellent.

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Brilliant

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

David Ignatius is reliable as always, good plot, pretty believable, and good prose, well narrated.

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My first David Ignatius

I selected this because the story sounded good and I really like the narrator. It did not disappoint! Worth it.

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Performance is Slooow.

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Too slow a reading...had to put my iPod on "faster".

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Can it happen

Great book, can it happen? In today’s world with the internet and social media it’s a possibility. Who knows?

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Frighteningly real in our world.

Great story with so much context relative to our world today. True intrigue and imagination for our electronic lives and the secrets they carry.

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