Bøger af David Ignatius

Praise for David Ignatius The Paladin "Tension, suspense, betrayal, and revenge...David Ignatius is the best in the world at this stuff."-- Lee Child"No spy novelist knows the world of American spookery better than Ignatius...His latest complex, well-informed work is one of his best."-- Adam Lebor, Financial Times The Quantum Spy "A fascinating, beautifully textured thriller."-- Richard Lipez, Washington Post"The Quantum Spy is David Ignatius at the top of his game! A truly thrilling, superbly crafted spy novel that focuses on pivotal contemporary issues."-- General (Ret.) David Petraeus"A work for now and forever. A contemporary adversary: China. A contemporary problem: quantum computing. And the ageless battle of spy versus spy. Couldn't put it down."-- Michael Hayden, former director of the CIA The Director "An entertaining, high-tech ride. . . . Mr. Ignatius . . . injects the plot with his wide-ranging knowledge of history, geopolitics and national security issues, while giving the reader an intimate sense of the tradecraft employed by his characters."-- Michiko Kakutani, New York Times

David Ignatius is known for his uncanny ability, in novel after novel, to predict the next great national security headline. In Phantom Orbit, he presents a story both searing and topical, with stakes as far-reaching as outer space. It follows Ivan Volkov, a Russian student in Beijing, who discovers an unsolved puzzle in the writings of the seventeenth-century astronomer Johannes Kepler. He takes the puzzle to a senior scientist in the Chinese space program and declares his intention to solve it. Volkov returns to Moscow and continues his secret work. The puzzle holds untold consequences for space warfare.The years pass, and they are not kind to Volkov. After the loss of his son, a prosecutor who'd been too tough on corruption, and Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Volkov makes the fraught decision to contact the CIA. He writes: Satellites are your enemies, especially your own. . . . Hidden codes can make time stop and turn north into south. . . . If you are smart, you will find me.With this timely novel, Ignatius addresses our moment of renewed interest in space exploration amid geopolitical tumult. Phantom Orbit brims with the author's vital insights and casts Volkov as the man who, at the risk of his life, may be able to stop the Doomsday clock.

The Apostolic Orthodox Church is an introduction to a truly apostolic Christian fellowship. Apostolic in both doctrine and Holy Orders. Here the reader can review the Constitution and Bylaws of the church, review the doctrine of Apostolic Succession, and actually see the apostolic linage of Presiding Bishop Mar David Ignatius.

Spannend verfilmt mit Leonardo di Caprio. Hier kommt das Hörbuch.Die CIA ist ratlos: Jeder Versuch, einen Maulwurf bei Al-Quaida einzuschleusen, mißlingt. Da kommt der in Jordanien stationierte Agent Ferris auf eine zündende Idee: Wenn man die Organisation nicht infiltrieren kann, muß man eben so tun als ob. Es wird eine Leiche im Libanon plaziert. Und tatsächlich: Das trojanische Pferd erzielt den gewünschten Erfolg. Doch dann wird Ferris plötzlich selbst entführt ...David Ignatius ist Journalist und Autor. Er arbeitet u. a. als Herausgeber und Kolumnist der "Washington Post". Ignatius gilt als Spezialist für Geheimdienste und den Nahen Osten.

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.

When rising-star reporter Eric Truell accepts information from a maverick CIA agent, he becomes enmeshed in an international trade war in which even his own newspaper may be an unsuspecting participant. When Eric's sources tell him there is a spy inside the newsroom, he is tempted to cross a dangerous professional line and risk his career-possibly even his life-to find the truth.

A Tinker, Tailor for the Snowden and WikiLeaks era.

In David Ignatius's gripping new novel, spies don't bother to steal information they change it, permanently and invisibly."

"Sizzling engrossing all the way." Los Angeles Times Book Review"

A New York Times Bestseller. If you think cybercrime and potential worldwide banking meltdown is a fiction, read this sensational thriller. Bob Woodward, Politico"

The New York Times bestseller: "A remarkably timely and pulse-quickening tale of deception, divided loyalty, and moral haziness."-Raleigh News & Observer

A super-intelligent thriller following the cat-and-mouse frisson between a US secret unit and an unknown force operating out of Pakistan.

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'.

A tale of counterterrorism from an author who "ranks with Graham Greene in his knowledge of espionage and the human heart" (Publishers Weekly).

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.