Bloodmoney: A Novel of Espionage - Hardcover

Ignatius, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393078116 ISBN 13: 9780393078114

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2011

Synopsis

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.

Someone in Pakistan is killing the members of a new CIA intelligence unit that is trying to buy peace with America's enemies. It falls to Sophie Marx, a young CIA officer with a big chip on her shoulder, to figure out who's doing the killing and why. Her starting point is Alphabet Capital, the London hedge fund that has been providing cover for this secret operation, but the investigation soon widens to include the capitals of the Middle East and the cruel hills of South Waziristan.

Sophie thinks she has the backing of her hard-nosed boss, Jeffrey Gertz, and his genial mentor at headquarters, Cyril Hoffman. In addition, she gets help from the well-mannered lieutenant general heading Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate. But the closer Sophie gets to her quarry, the more she realizes that nothing in this gallery of mirrors is quite what it seems. This is a theater of violence and retribution, in which the last act is one that Sophie could not have imagined.

David Ignatius has written a disturbing and compelling novel where the price of unchecked government is paid in blood, and peace can be bought only through betrayal.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Praise for Bloodmoney:

“Ignatius writes with authority and skill about a shadow world in which nothing is as it seems and money is power. This may be fiction, but in the end the reader will be struck by how feasible the story really is. A terrific, believable novel about the intersection of politics, ethics, and finance.”―Kirkus Reviews
Praise for The Increment:

“[Ignatius], . . . who knows more about the CIA than any other columnist, writes terrific spy novels.”―Time

“[Ignatius’s] richly emotional climax . . . bears the hard weight of both political and personal history and recognizes the seriousness of what might come next.”―Washington Post

About the Author:

David Ignatius is a prize-winning columnist for the Washington Post and has been covering the Middle East and the CIA for nearly three decades. He has written several New York Times bestsellers, most recently The Director. He lives in Washington, D.C.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0393078116
• ISBN 13: 9780393078114
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384