Body of Lies: A Novel
by David Ignatius
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Author: David IgnatiusEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-04-16
ISBN: 0393065030
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: W. W. Norton
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Book Review: Body of Pedantry
Summary: 2 Stars
I don't usually read spy-thrillers, I'm more of a Dostoevsky/James Joyce guy but my advice w/ this one is read the opening chapter in the bookshoppe then put it back on the shelf.
Personally, I would be embarrassed having written this book, especially under my real name w/ all the adolescent love-scenes in it. Ignatius writes like a 16-yr old lovesick kid.
Also, not real authentic. I mean, anyone who's actually been to Iraq on operations knows how hard it is to get a Predator to lock onto your position whereas in the book this kid is followed almost constantly. The movie's plot has better twists but even more asburd w/ the satellites/drones following homeboy as he's buying fruits, etc. Also, he calls in gunships during a car-chase & there they are in 10 seconds ready to fire. Yeah right. Try getting air-support like that on the ground in Iraq, Ignatius. Should've been more actual Arabic in the book too & the end is rushed & hackneyed; no AQ operative like that would fall for such a stupid ploy. That's why most of these books suck, cuz they're so false & behind-the-times. Try 'The Faithful Agent' instead & just catch the DiCaprio flick which isn't that great either.
Summary of Body of Lies: A Novel
A tale of counterterrorism from an author who "ranks with Graham Greene in his knowledge of espionage and the human heart" (Publishers Weekly).Roger Ferris is one of the CIA's soldiers in the war on terrorism. He has come out of Iraq with a shattered leg and an intense mission-to penetrate the network of a master terrorist known only as "Suleiman." Ferris's plan for getting inside Suleiman's tent is inspired by a masterpiece of British intelligence during World War II: He prepares a body of lies, literally the corpse of an imaginary CIA officer who appears to have accomplished the impossible by recruiting an agent within the enemy's ranks.
This 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 Carr?'s celebrated spy, George Smiley. But can Ferris trust him?
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