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Body of Lies: A Novel | 
 enlarge | Author: David Ignatius
Creator: Dick Hill
Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
Category: Book
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 1558121
Format: Audiobook, Cd, Unabridged
Media: Audio CD
Edition: Unabridged
Number Of Items: 10
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 6.4 x 5.4 x 1.1
ISBN: 1400104432
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9781400104437
ASIN: 1400104432
Publication Date: May 28, 2007
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Realistic and compelling July 12, 2007
Kasablanca (U.K)
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.
HAUNTINGLY REAL April 10, 2007
Gail Cooke (TX, USA)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
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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