Books with title The Director

In David Ignatius' gripping new novel, spies don' t bother to steal information...they change it, permanently and invisibly. Graham Weber has been director of the CIA for less than a week when a Swiss kid in a dirty T-shirt walks into the American consulate in Hamburg and says the agency has been hacked, and he has a list of agents' names to prove it. This is the moment a CIA director most dreads. Weber isn' t sure where to turn until he meets a charismatic (and unstable) young man named James Morris who runs the Internet Operations Center. He' s the CIA' s in-house geek. Weber launches Morris on a mole hunt unlike anything in spy fiction - one that takes the listener into the hacker underground of Europe and America and ends up in a landscape of paranoia and betrayal. Like the new world of cyber-espionage from which it' s drawn, The Director is a maze of deception and double-dealing - about a world where everything is written in zeroes and ones and nothing can be trusted.

A New York Times Bestseller. “If you think cybercrime and potential worldwide banking meltdown is a fiction, read this sensational thriller.”—Bob Woodward, PoliticoGraham Weber has been the director of the CIA for less than a week when a Swiss kid in a dirty T-shirt walks into the American consulate in Hamburg and says the agency has been hacked, and he has a list of agents' names to prove it. This is the moment a CIA director most dreads. Like the new world of cyber-espionage from which it's drawn, The Director is a maze of double dealing, about a world where everything is written in zeroes and ones—and nothing can be trusted.

A New York Times Bestseller. “If you think cybercrime and potential worldwide banking meltdown is a fiction, read this sensational thriller.”―Bob Woodward, PoliticoGraham Weber has been the director of the CIA for less than a week when a Swiss kid in a dirty T-shirt walks into the American consulate in Hamburg and says the agency has been hacked, and he has a list of agents' names to prove it. This is the moment a CIA director most dreads. Like the new world of cyber-espionage from which it's drawn, The Director is a maze of double dealing, about a world where everything is written in zeroes and ones―and nothing can be trusted.

In David Ignatius's gripping new novel, spies don't bother to steal information…they change it, permanently and invisibly. Graham Weber has been the director of the CIA for less than a week when a Swiss kid in a dirty T-shirt walks into the American consulate in Hamburg and says the agency has been hacked, and he has a list of agents' names to prove it. This is the moment a CIA director most dreads. Weber turns to a charismatic (and unstable) young man named James Morris who runs the Internet Operations Center. He's the CIA's in-house geek. Weber launches Morris on a mole hunt unlike anything in spy fiction―one that takes the reader into the hacker underground of Europe and America and ends up in a landscape of paranoia and betrayal. Like the new world of cyber-espionage from which it's drawn, The Director is a maze of deception and double dealing, about a world where everything is written in zeroes and ones and nothing can be trusted. The CIA has belatedly discovered that this is not your father’s Cold War, and Weber must play catch-up, against the clock and an unknown enemy, in a game he does not yet understand.

Her brother does not know she exists. An A-list director is obsessed over her... It's been five months since eighteen-year-old Oliana Mercer discovered she had a twin brother and left Reyersen, the film school of her dreams to escape the bad memories. All she wants is to put what is left of her family back together and launch her acting career.After signing with a reputable talent agency, auditions have been plenty, but the callbacks, not so much. Just when Oliana is ready to give up, her agent informs her that a director wants her to play the lead role in a thriller movie, which she accepts.During a table read with other castmates, Oliana realizes the director wrote it just for her, and soon his reasoning to have her as the star is made painfully clear. Once the camera starts rolling, each scene reaches a dangerous climax forcing Oliana into a game of role-playing as she tries to find a way out. But it's too late. A plan to kidnap her has been set in motion. Hoping to survive, Oliana asks for help from the one person who wants her dead.Will Oliana be able to escape?

The Director invites nine-year-old Tommy Whitaker to be a character in a book set in 1957. The trouble begins in the Regal movie theatre, where after the Saturday matinee. Elwood Wambo, the strange caretaker of the movie theatre, hires Tommy and his 1957 best friend, Mouse, to stay behind on future Saturdays to clean the theatre when the movie is over.The boys later learn that Wambo and his partner Jeremy are part of a gang of thieves. When their friend Smitty’s bike is stolen and when Smitty himself mysteriously disappears, Tommy and his two friends Mouse and Royal vow to solve the mysteries of their missing friend, his missing bike…and a murder.

Every villain has an origin story ...this is the Director’s. Gabriel Parker had it all: a loving wife, a beautiful daughter, a nice house, and a good job. How does a man go from all of this to someone who would train a five-year-old girl to be a killer for his Pervasive Justice program? This prequel to THE CHRONICLES OF PJ series is an insight into the creation of a madman.

Against all odds, Oy, Dilea, and Rainbow Sherbit freed PJ from the Director’s evil training school in The Escape. Their victory, however, is short-lived when they discover the Director is tracking PJ’s movement. They can’t run and they can’t hide.They need help from someone willing to fight the Director. Someone not afraid to take things as far as they need to go. Someone without a conscience.Enter the mysterious hooded figure, who has the skills necessary to stop the Director’s pursuit of PJ. Can this hooded figure help Oy and the gang rescue PJ once and for all, or will the Director get his revenge?This tale, filled with action/adventure and humor, is the second book in the The Chronicles of PJ middle grade fiction series.