As a result, his novels have been the most realistic of the sordid world of intelligence operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. His sources are mostly anonymous, but they have shared the secrets of intelligence trade craft with Ignatius. Ignatius is one of the most qualified writers of espionage thrillers, being the Washington Post's correspondent who covers the CIA and the Middle East for the last 25 years. This is a theater of violence and retribution, in which the last act is one that Sophie could not have imagined.ĭavid 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. But the closer Sophie gets to her quarry, the more she realizes that nothing in this gallery of mirrors is quite what it seems. In addition, she gets help from the well-mannered lieutenant general heading Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate. Sophie thinks she has the backing of her hard-nosed boss, Jeffrey Gertz, and his genial mentor at headquarters, Cyril Hoffman. 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. 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.
Someone in Pakistan is killing the members of a new CIA intelligence unit that is trying to buy peace with America's enemies. 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.
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