About this title: 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.
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780393065046ISBN:0393065049
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Edition: 1st American Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.
Date Published: 5/18/2009
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Date Published: 2009-05-18
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co
Date Published: 2009-05-18
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Binding: Spoken Word MP3-CD
Publisher: Tantor Media Inc
Date Published: 2009-05-18
ISBN-13:9781400160693ISBN:1400160693
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Binding: Audio CD
Publisher: Tantor Media
Date Published: 2009
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Date Published: 2009-05-18
ISBN-13:9780393065046ISBN:0393065049
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Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co
Date Published: 2009
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"This book started out to be rather interesting. It concerns a CIA effort to gain access to the Iranian nuclear program by recruiting an Iranian scientist. The story breaks down once the action gets under way. The part about brittish spy infiltrators sent in to exfiltrate the scientist was a lttle hokey. Ignatius's characters are not very believable. I did like this slightly more than his first book, "Body of Lies" which was made into a motion picture. Ignatius's writing will not make me forget that the master spy story writer is still LeCarre'."
"I don't read spy thrillers often, but I'm glad I read this one. It's by the author of Body of Lies, which was made into a movie with Leo DiCaprio and the Gladiator dude. This book takes place between Washington, Tehran, and London. A middle-aged CIA agent heading a small division comes across an encrypted email from a young Iranian nuclear scientist who appears to want to defect from Iran. The story cuts to the Iranian scientist and his life in Tehran, a modern city with a complicated culture that combines capitalist luxury with a totalitarian state watching your every move. Complications ensue when our CIA agent runs into difficulties attempting to rescue the Iranian. Some members of the US government want to pounce on this incident as an excuse for a full-scale war with Iran. To carry out his moral duty, our man must enlist the help of the UK's top secret spy unit, The Increment, to help him secretly extricate the Iranian. The pace builds and builds until the last quarter of the book. Not a typical thriller."
"I picked out this book because of my inability to stay away from any book that is somehow compared to Le Carre's earlier books, and this time it was The Spy Who Came in From the Cold! Of course this was not of the same caliber of any of Le Carre's earlier novels, in terms of plot and style. Still this is not a bad read. Interesting premises and enough suspense will keep you guessing till the end. The biggest laugh had to be the mention of Thomas Friedman's The World Is Not Flat and how one Iranian in a cafe commented on Friedman being the greatest writer of our times. Three stars for the joke and the laugh!"
"A very good spy novel which is also about real politics and the real world. An Iranian nuclear scientist has decided to risk everything to alert the West that Iran is still working to build nuclear bombs. He sends an email to the CIA to let them know, and the email eventually lands in the lap of Harry Pappas, a career spy, who brings it to the attention of Fox who is more of a political appointee. Fox alerts the White House, which decides that this information can be used as the starting off point for attacking Iran. Pappas suspects that this will lead to the death of the Iranian asset, and that Fox and the White House will get many Americans killed in an ill advised war that is unnecessary if the Iranians are really not far along in the research to find weapons.
Pappas asks the Director of Operations of the CIA for more time and gets 2 weeks. Pappas asks an old friend of his, a British spy for help. The Brit, arranges for a special forces team, composed of his very attractive girlfriend and two other British Arabs (the so-called Increment) to penetrate Iran and get the scientist out so he can be questioned by Pappas to find out how far along the Iranians are in their nuclear weapons program. At the same time, the Brit, takes Harry to meet a friend of his Kamel Atwin, an Arab billionaire arms trader who is involved in a secret plot to sell sensitive material to the Iranians, which eventually breaks down and causes calculations of the Iranians to be off. Pappas, plans with his Iranian asset a way to mess up the Iranians weapon program even more and sends the asset back to Iran.
Kamel has his own agenda, of course, and its up to Pappas to figure out what is going on when the plan works in part but is screwed up in other ways.
The novel is really a good view of how the players on the world stage work and how a principled CIA agent has to use whatever means he can to do his job --gather intelligence and support American interests in the face of those who want to use the intelligence for their own ends."
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