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Jun 2, 2014

The Director, David Ignatius

In the wake of a corruption scandal at the CIA, the president appoints millionaire businessman Graham Weber as the new Director.

Weber has a mountain to climb; the old guard don’t want him to shake things up as he has promised to do. Some want him to succeed, most want him to fail. As Weber’s tenure begins, a scruffy young kid walks into the US embassy in Berlin with a message for the new broom. “The CIA has been hacked, we’re reading all of your encrypted data.”

Weber has to use all the analogue assets he has to find the leak before an army of hackers launches an all-out assault on a pillar of anglo-US co-operation that goes all the way back to 1945. If they can bring it down a new era will begin and Weber may be powerless to stop them.

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