The Paladin: A Spy Novel
CIA operations officer Michael Dunne is tasked with infiltrating an Italian news organization that smells like a front for an enemy intelligence service. Headed by an American journalist, the self-styled bandits run a cyber operation unlike anything the CIA has seen before. Fast, slick, and indiscriminate, the group steals secrets from everywhere and anyone, and exploits them in ways the CIA can neither understand nor stop.
Dunne knows it's illegal to run a covert op on an American citizen or journalist, but he has never refused an assignment and his boss has assured his protection. Soon after Dunne infiltrates the organization, however, his cover disintegrates. 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.
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Ignatius...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....Ignatius's unsettling novel reminds us that we have created a world where facts have "alternatives" and the "news" on the social networks can't be trusted. It's a page turner, but it's also a chilling story of the way the Internet has been weaponized.--Chris Bohjalian
A delicious layer cake of a book--tension, suspense, betrayal, and revenge, all floating on a bedrock of total authenticity...David Ignatius is the best in the world at this stuff.--Lee Child
Lifted by nifty surveillance schemes, the plot hums.
