The Paladin

A Spy Novel

David Ignatius

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Year: 2020
• eBook ISBN: 9780393254181

"Tension, suspense, betrayal, and revenge.… David Ignatius is the best in the world at this stuff." —Lee Child

In this latest novel from the "dean of international intrigue" (Brad Thor) and New York Times best-selling author David Ignatius, CIA operations officer Michael Dunne is tasked with infiltrating an Italian news organization that smells like a front for an enemy intelligence service. Headed by an American journalist, the self-styled bandits run a cyber operation unlike anything the CIA has seen before. Fast, slick, and indiscriminate, the group steals secrets from everywhere and anyone, and exploits them in ways the CIA can neither understand nor stop.

Dunne knows it's illegal to run a covert op on an American citizen or journalist, but he has never refused an assignment and his boss has assured his protection. Soon after Dunne infiltrates the organization, however, his cover disintegrates. When news of the operation breaks and someone leaks that Dunne had an extramarital affair while on the job, the CIA leaves him to take the fall. Now a year later, fresh out of jail, Dunne sets out to hunt down and take vengeance on the people who destroyed his life.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• 1 Alexandria, Virginia—May 2017
• 2 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania—May 2018
• 3 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania—May 2018
• 4 Langley, Virginia—August 2016
• 5 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania—May 2018
• 6 Langley—September 2016
• 7 Langley—September 2016
• 8 Geneva—September 2016
• 9 Geneva—September 2016
• 10 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania—May 2018
• 11 Montecito, California—May 2018
• 12 Los Angeles, California—May 2018
• 13 Paris—August 2017
• 14 Geneva—September 2016
• 15 Geneva—September 2016
• 16 Geneva—September 2016
• 17 Cheat Lake, West Virginia—May 2018
• 18 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania—June 2018
• 19 Geneva—October 2016
• 20 Urbino, Italy—October 2016
• 21 Urbino, Italy—October 2016
• 22 Urbino, Italy—October 2016
• 23 Langley, Virginia—October 2016
• 24 Costa Smeralda, Sardinia—June 2018
• 25 Costa Smeralda, Sardinia—June 2018
• 26 Washington, D.C.—October 2016
• 27 Washington, D.C.—October 2016
• 28 Washington, D.C.—October 2016
• 29 Arlington, Virginia—December 2016
• 30 Costa Smeralda, Sardinia—June 2018
• 31 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania—June 2018
• 32 Taipei, Taiwan—June 2018
• 33 Taipei, Taiwan—June 2018
• 34 Taipei, Taiwan—June 2018
• 35 Taipei, Taiwan—June 2018
• 36 Whippany, New Jersey—June 2018
• 37 San Francisco, California, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania—June 2018
• 38 Brooklyn, New York—June 2018
• 39 Erie, Pennsylvania—June 2018
• 40 Lake Erie Beach, New York—June 2018
• 41 Niagara Falls, New York—June 2018
• 42 Niagara Falls, New York—June 2018
• 43 Darien, Connecticut—June 2018
• 44 Darien, Connecticut—June 2018
• 45 Irvine, California, and San Jose, California—June 2018
• 46 Manhattan—June 2018
• 47 Manhattan—June 2018
• 48 Manhattan—June 2018
• 49 Manhattan—June 2018
• 50 Manhattan—June 2018
• 51 Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, and Washington, D.C.—July 2018
• Acknowledgements
• Also by David Ignatius
• Copyright