David Ignatius Knihy

Hyper výkonný a rychlý kvantový počítač je digitální ekvivalent jaderné bomby. Díky němu bude možné rozluštit jakékoli šifrování a prolomit sebelepší kód. Otázka zní: sestrojí ho jako první Američané nebo Číňané? David Ignatius, mistr špionážního thrilleru, rozehrává na stránkách této knihy jedinečný příběh souboje americké a čínské rozvědky o ovládnutí jednoho z největších technologických tajemství dneška. Důstojník CIA Harris Čang spolu se svým velitelem Johnem Vandelem, skutečným veteránem špionáže, musí za každou cenu vypátrat identitu tajemného informátora, jenž poskytuje drahocenná data čínským protivníkům. Lov na „krtka“ se však stává skutečnou noční můrou , která nutí Čanga zpochybnit vše, čemu dosud věřil. Zápas o životy nás všech i hra o pravdu a morálku totiž nikdy nekončí…

Komentátor Washington Post Ignatius využil svých hlubokých znalostí politického zákulisí současnosti a napsal svůj doposud nejlepší špionážní thriller z období po jedenáctém září. Jeho zápletka je rafinovaně komplikovaná a hlavním hrdinou knihy je idealistický agent CIA Roger Ferris, jenž je po zranění v Iráku převelen do Jordánska. Ferris se rozhodne, že penetruje teroristickou síť kolem vůdce teroristů Suleimana - jeho plán je inspirován úspěšnou špionážní akcí z 2. sv. v. - a připraví spletitý „labyrint lží“. Ferris chce znepřátelit teroristy mezi sebou, snaží se je znejistět a přesvědčit, že jejich vůdci kolaborují s Američany. Plán je však natolik složitý a ošidný, že i Ferrisův život se převrací zcela naruby, a tím pádem se ocitá v ohrožení i jeho profesionální vztah se šéfem jordánské tajné služby. Tento velmi napínavý thriller z prostředí politiky Středního Východu má psychologicky propracované postavy, vykresluje bohatý obraz života v Iráku, Jordánsku a Sýrii a svižně popisuje pátrání po teroristech. Podle románu vznikl úspěšný film Ridleyho Scotta s Russellem Crowem a Leonardem DiCapriem v hlavních rolích. Autor pracuje na románovém prokračování, které má zatím pracovní název The Increment, což je název speciálního oddělení britské tajné služby.

America's status as a world power remains at a historic turning point. The strategies employed to win the wars of the twentieth century are no longer working, and the US must contend with the changing nature of power in a globalized world. In America and the World, two of the most respected figures in American foreign policy, Zbigniew Brzezinski and Brent Scowcroft, dissect the challenges facing the US today: the Middle East, Russia, and China, among others. In spontaneous conversations the two authors explore their agreements and disagreements. Defining the center of responsible opinion on American foreign policy, America and the World is an essential primer on a host of urgent issues at a time when our leaders' decisions could determine how long our nation remains a superpower.

A "superlative spy novel" ( New York Times ) by the author of the bestselling espionage thrillers Body of Lies and The Director . 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.

CIA operations officer Michael Dunne is tasked with infiltrating an Italian news organization - headed by a US journalist - believed to be a front for an enemy intelligence service. Dunne knows it's illegal to run a covert op on an American citizen, but he has never refused an assignment and his boss has assured his protection. Soon after Dunne infiltrates the organization, however, his cover is blown. When news of the operation breaks and someone leaks that Dunne had an extramarital affair while on the job, the CIA leaves him to take the fall. Now a year later, fresh out of jail, Dunne sets out to hunt down and take vengeance on the people who destroyed his life. An absolutely gripping cybersecurity thriller, perfect for fans of James Swallow, Mark Greaney and James Deegan. 'Ignatius, an award-winning columnist for the Washington Post, brings his immense skills as a journalist to his fiction, researching the idea and enriching his plot with both the latest spycraft and the arcane workings of, very often, the CIA' Washington Post 'Love for its old-world suspense or for its ultramodern vision of technology run amok, but love it you will' Booklist

"You emerge from its pages as if from a top-level security briefing—confident that you have been let in on the deepest secrets." —Washington Post Someone in Pakistan is killing the members of a new CIA unit trying to buy peace with America’s enemies. It falls to Sophie Marx, a young officer with a big chip on her shoulder, to figure out who’s doing the killing and why. Unfortunately for Sophie, nothing is quite what it seems. This is a theater of violence and revenge, in which the last act is one that Sophie could not have imagined.

Graham Weber has been director of the CIA for less than a week when a Swiss kid in a dirty tshirt 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 reader 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

What's the worst mistake a journalist could make? Acclaimed novelist and award-winning journalist David Ignatius has written an authentic news thriller about a reporter who dances too closely with his sources in the CIA.

Made restless by the tightening restrictions of CIA bureaucracy, agent Alan Taylor oversteps moral and legal bounds in a top-secret mission to destabilize the Soviet Union. His new recruit—the beautiful Anna Barnes, who struggles with complex feelings for Taylor—receives a deeper education than she signed up for in David Ignatius’s trademark world of shifting international and domestic pressures, hidden loyalties, and secret agendas.

Hit men stalk computer analyst Lina Alwen and financial investigator Sam Hoffman in pursuit of the knowledge the pair may have regarding a late Iraqi dictator s billions. From London to Switzerland, and from Baghdad to the mysterious corners of the just-budding Internet, this spy thriller covers the map to uncover a world of corruption."