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David Ignatius

David Ignatius is a prize-winning columnist for the Washington Post and has been covering the Middle East and the CIA for four decades. He has written several New York Times bestsellers. He lives in Washington, DC.

David Ignatius

David Ignatius is a prize-winning columnist for the Washington Post and has been covering the Middle East and the CIA for four decades. He has written several New York Times bestsellers. He lives in Washington, DC.

Books by David Ignatius

  • The Director: A Novel

    David Ignatius

    Hardback, 2014

    In David Ignatius's gripping new novel, spies don't bother to steal information…they change it, permanently and invisibly.
  • Body of Lies: A Novel

    David Ignatius

    Hardback, 2007

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

    David Ignatius

    Hardback, 2009

    By the author of the best-selling Body of Lies, a novel that takes the reader inside the most volatile secret of the twenty-first century: the Iranian nuclear program.
  • Body of Lies: A Novel

    David Ignatius

    Paperback, 2008

    The novel made into the major motion picture released October 2008, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe: "Clever [and] well-paced, Body of Lies is hard to put down."—John Miller, Wall...
  • Body of Lies: A Novel

    David Ignatius

    Movie Tie In Edition, Paperback, 2008

    The novel made into the major motion picture released October 2008, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe: "Clever [and] well-paced, Body of Lies is hard to put down."—John Miller, Wall...
  • The Increment: A Novel

    David Ignatius

    Paperback, 2010

    The New York Times bestseller: “A remarkably timely and pulse-quickening tale of deception, divided loyalty, and moral haziness.”—Raleigh News & Observer
  • Bloodmoney: A Novel of Espionage

    David Ignatius

    Hardback, 2011

    From the author of the best-selling Body of Lies and The Increment: in a tragedy of revenge, the CIA falls victim to its own daring operation in the Middle East.
  • Bloodmoney: A Novel of Espionage

    David Ignatius

    Paperback, 2012

    "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
  • A Firing Offense: A Novel

    David Ignatius

    Paperback, 2013

    "A dynamic thriller with the coolest, smartest journalist that fiction ever produced." —Ben Bradlee, Washington Post
  • Siro: A Novel

    David Ignatius

    Paperback, 2013

    “A riveting imagined world, so real in fact that one always wonders if it is imagined at all.” —Scott Turow