A review by flogigyahoo
The Director by David Ignatius

3.0

David Ignatius was, until now, one of my favorite thriller writers. I liked all of his previous novels. The Director, his latest, is well written and he's done a hell of a lot of research in the field of computer hacking and hackers. But there's too much of it and not enough action. As a matter of fact, his protagonist, the Director of the CIA, in the only chapter in which there is action is held incommunicado and helpless. There's far too much information about geeks, geeky computer language that's way beyond what a normal person needs to know about computer hacking. The other characters come across as stereotypes and even The Director is hard to read. He goes about his business with very little explanation of what he's doing or thinking. The end is just blah. It takes place over the course of one chapter in which things could go this way or that. I gave it 3 stars because the writing is so good and that's actually what held my interest to the end. Sad to say, but after reading it, had I known, I would have given it a pass.