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"A dynamic thriller with the coolest, smartest journalist that fiction ever produced." —Ben Bradlee, Washington Post

When rising-star reporter Eric Truell accepts information from a maverick CIA agent, he becomes enmeshed in an international trade war in which even his own newspaper may be an unsuspecting participant. When Eric's sources tell him there is a spy inside the newsroom, he is tempted to cross a dangerous professional line and risk his career—possibly even his life—to find the truth.

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00AN86KR6
Publisher ‏ : ‎ W. W. Norton & Company; Reprint edition (May 28, 2013)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 28, 2013
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1715 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 479 pages
Reviewer: Caron L.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Another highly entertaining David Ignatius read!
Review: What I love about David Ignatius is that each of his books are very different yet they all have great characters, great plots, and lots of insight into the inner workings of the news industry and the spy trade.I highly recommend all his books. I have not been disappointed yet, and I’ve read several.This one in particular would make a great movie.

Reviewer: D. B. Hopkins
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Realtime...Maybe?
Review: This tale about a journalist getting slowly, inexorably sucked into working with...for the CIA rings true. Maybe truer than we would like to admit. David Ignatius is a good writer and he weaves his tale skillfully. We like, hate, and are annoyed with his characters, but seldom indifferent. I liked the slow progression from a young journalist shocked by the possibility that one of his mentors was working with a foreign intelligence agency, to getting even more involved himself, all the while trying to rationalize what he is doing. It's good storytelling and a good morale dilemma. There are points where the story gets a little far from the edge, but who knows. Maybe the weird world of journo-intelligence is really that convoluted. Great book for the summer holiday to make you feel like you are having a good time, but maybe learning something too. What would you do?

Reviewer: Van Fleisher, author of FINAL NOTICE, the thriller that asks, "What would you do if you had one week to live?"
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Another great thriller with a new twist
Review: Ignatius’ spy thrillers have been amongst my favorites, but this one centering on journalism was equally satisfying. He masters the genre as he weaves in and out of real and fictional situations.

Reviewer: Jim C
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: There are better David Ignatius books to read before this one
Review: I am a fan of the spy novels of David Ignatius and find them compelling, interesting stories, almost, but not quite as good as the master in this genre, Le Carre. I enjoyed "A Firing Offense" but found it to be the weakest novel that he has written so far that I have read. For people intersted in an Ignatius book, try "Siro", Agents of Innocence" or "The Increment" which are all excellant, before getting around to reading "A Firing Offense".This book does raise interesting issues, i.e. how is the press influenced by the CIA or other intellegence services. But I found the first person perspective, the lead character and the finish not too compelling. All things considered, however, it is a riviting page-turner.

Reviewer: Roadhouse
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Try it, you may like it.
Review: The principal character is likable and as believable as the protagonist of a thriller needs to be. Once you forgive a few plot contrivances, especially the weird bio-weapon thing, this is a good read. The first half on the way to the coast, finish on the flight home. I will probably try another of Ignatius' books, and I recommend this one.

Reviewer: MarkMyWords
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: The most authentic novel yet about newspaper journalism
Review: I've been a reporter off and on my whole life, but my newspaper experience is minimal. What I know is from having friends in the business who earnestly do their best, mainly in smaller papers.The collapse of print journalism has hastened since Ignatius wrote this book, so it has the sense of having been written by a visionary. It is very real. But I bought this in need of a fresh read in the high-end spy genre. And what I got was a wonderful two-fer. The intelligence community stuff is first rate, and the issues the protagonist must wrestle are, in a macrocosm, issues every weekly rag writer must handle, even If it's just the local cops. I simply love this book and have actively recommended it to friends in the biz. I also recommend it to you, the reader who wants a great spy tale.

Reviewer: J. Hunter
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Ignatius has it all
Review: Ignatius is a wonderful writer who has it all: plot, character development, a (sometimes) not so subtle tension and the underlying feel of truth in what he writes. This is a good book and a very good writer. It never ceases to amaze me how wonderful it is to experience a good author, what with the mediocrity that abounds. It is like the intimacy of an old friend. Ignatius does that for me. Highly recommended.

Reviewer: Pit
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Wonderful insights about modern journalism
Review: Wonderful insights about modern journalism. Reads fast and story is tight, intricate, well constructed, and thoroughly entertaining. A free press is never safe and Ignatius makes that a compelling theme.

Reviewer: 851amaz
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: In Teilen gut, in anderen eher langatmig

Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Excellent novel, easy to get into the characters. A bit of a change from his other novels, just as good.

Reviewer: Gianluca Carpiceci
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: This is not an espionage novel; this is a book about journalism, specifically about journalism ethics. The connection with the world of intelligence just provides the angle from which the author delivers his point of view about his profession, through the struggles of the protagonist (Eric Truell, I liked the play of words) in a moment when the crisis of newspapers starts and when jThe narration falls at times into the syndrome of "the good old times", the golden age when journalism was all about courage and honesty, and when newspapers were only after the pure truth and not after profits, as opposed to nowadays when journalists are amoral sharks and newspapers start laying off as the crisis of their business models begins.So, at times, the tone becomes unnecessarily nostalgic but, for the major part, I thought the novel was pretty enjoyable, as usual well written even if not at the level of Ignatius' best books.

Reviewer: Pedro F. Toledo
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Ignatius escreve muito bem, sem dúvida. Insere o leitor na narrativa e, sendo jornalista, conhece bem os meandros da atividade. Contudo, em meu entendimento, o livro carece de um pouco mais de ação, para compatibilizá-lo com a categoria em que está classificado.

Reviewer: North Wind
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: David Ignatius spins a regularly good yarn set this time against the backdrop of declining paper press outlets' fortunes, and the little known but widespread closeness of journalists to the intelligence services.End of book kind of rushed and somehow predictable.