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  • Audio CD
  • Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc; Library ed edition (28 May 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1400134439
  • ISBN-13: 978-1400134434
  • Product Dimensions: 16.8 x 16.3 x 2.5 cm
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Ignatius ranks with Graham Greene in his knowledge of espionage and the human heart - Publishers WeeklyBody of Lies is fiction but reads like fact. CIA officers admire Ignatius because more than any other writer he understands the nuances of their trade. Fascinating - George Tenet, former CIA Director --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

George Tenet, former CIA Director

Body of Lies is fiction but reads like fact. CIA officers admire Ignatius because more than any other writer he understands the nuances of their trade. Fascinating. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars HAUNTINGLY REAL, 10 April 2007
By Gail Cooke (TX, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Body of Lies: A Novel (Hardcover)

Body of Lies is surely an apt title for this taut thriller from Washington Post columnist David Ignatius because for starters - a body is needed, a dead body. Not just any corpse, mind you: "It took nearly a month to find the right body. Roger Ferris had very particular requirements: He wanted a man in his thirties, physically fit, preferably blond but certainly and recognizably Caucasian. He should have no obvious signs of disease or physical trauma. And no bullet wounds, either. That would make it too complicated later."

Complicated is a mild description of what is to come later as Roger Ferris, one of the CIA's top operatives in today's war on terrorism, is assigned to Jordan following wounds he received in Iraq. To date no one has been able to net Suleiman, the Muslim terrorist behind car bombings throughout the world. He's hidden deep in the desert, unapproachable, invisible.

Ferris is an idealist, determined that 9/11 won't happen again and to this end he initiates a complex scheme used by the British in their war against the Nazis. The British World War II plot was called Operation `Mincemeat," a clever stratagem that allowed the British to feed false information to the Nazis through the dead body of a decoy British agent. Ferris's ploy, dubbed "taqiyya" (ancient Arabic for a necessary lie) is intended to convince Suleiman that American agents have already worked their way in to Al-Qaeda, and he is in danger.

Risky? Undoubtedly, but Suleiman must be stopped and so far American efforts have been slow, ineffective, and riddled with errors.

Film rights for this powerful novel have already been acquired by Warner Bros. Rightly so, as David Ignatius can write with a keen understanding of CIA operations and international terrorism. He has studied and covered both in his 25 years as reporter, foreign correspondent, and editor. He's a strong writer, and his story is a gripping one made even more compelling by its probability.

Highly recommended.

- Gail Cooke
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5.0 out of 5 stars Realistic and compelling, 12 July 2007
This review is from: Body of Lies: A Novel (Hardcover)
This is as good as, if not better than his first book, Agents of Innocence. Roger Ferris, the CIA agent, is no Jack Bauer type, because this is totally realistic. He gets scared and does not carry a gun. I read it in two weeks and found it interesting and exciting all the way through. The plots within plots are just so clever but easy to follow. The end is satisfying, up to the very last sentence.
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0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Unconvincing Lies, 29 Sep 2009
By G. M. Sinstadt - See all my reviews
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So far in a minority of one, I have to confess to finding Body of Lies a disappointingly mechanical novel. I read it in forty-eight hours while on holiday and already, a couple of weeks later, only hazy recollections remain. There was probably no choice for Ignatius but to admit that a central plank of his plot was borrowed from The Man Who Never Was but it immediately removed one star for originality. Cardboard characters removed another. But the author conveys a sense of knowing something about the CIA and also about the Middle East. So two stars for that.

There is clearly a market for Ian Fleming's successors but few of them match the flair and wit of the original, and I fear David Ignatius is one of them.
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