β Scribed by David Ignatius
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
INVISIBLE. They are the American government's most powerful asset, their very existence only known to a handful of individuals. INGENIOUS. An elite unit of deep-cover agents, turning the tide in the war on terror. That is, until they start being exposed, one by one. INFILTRATED. And now a hunt to find the leak, before they all go under.
'Mr Ignatius is a master' The Economist.
'Eerily prescient' Sunday Express.
'The pacing is brisk, the writing is clean and efficient, and the plot is blessedly free of that fate-of-the-world melodrama that destroys far too many so-called thrillers' Washington Post.
'All warfare is based on deception.' According to received wisdom Pakistan is defined by three 'A's: Allah, Army and America. Yet for the brilliant and Western-educated scientist, Professor Omar, the war isn't based on religious extremism. It's personal. After his family's compound was bombed by a US military drone, Omar has sworn revenge. Jeffrey Gertz, aka 'killer', heads up America's new top-secret unit. He's just employed the ambitious Sophie Marx as Chief of Counter-Intelligence. All is going to plan, until one of their moles disappears. The most helpful scenario is that he's dead. But what if he's not? Who's responsible? Who knew his real identity? In a game of cat and mouse, Sophie and her team try to plug the leak before it's too late. However, in a world created and sustained by multiple identities, the truth is hard to find, and failure is deadly.
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