Body of Lies » (Bargain)

David Ignatius, a prize-winning columnist for the Washington Post, has been covering the Middle East and the CIA for more than twenty-five years. His novels include Agents of Innocence, Body of Lies, and The Increment, now in development for a major motion picture by Jerry Bruckheimer. He lives in Washington, DC.

Roger Ferris is one of the CIA's soldiers in the war on terrorism. His mission is to penetrate the network of a master terrorist known only as "Suleiman." Ferris's scheme binds friend and foe in a web of extraordinary subtlety and complexity, and when it begins to unravel, Ferris finds himself flying blind into a hurricane. His only hope is the urbane head of Jordan's intelligence service—-a man who might be an Arab version of John le Carre's celebrated spy, George Smiley. But can Ferris trust him?

Adrian McKinty

The book works extremely well, and its imagery and characters linger in the memory. We need gifted and intelligent thriller writers like David Ignatius. One hopes that he has another book in the planning stage and is already filling in form DS-4085, requesting yet more visa pages for his well-worn passport.— The Washington Post