by David Ignatius
How do you tell the editor of a prestigious national newspaper that his star reporter—and your colleague—is secretly working for a foreign power? That, it turns out, is the least of New York Mirror newsman Eric Truell's problems in this well-turned thriller. Truell's wrestle with journalistic ethics comes dangerously closer to home when he is approached by the CIA to help a French biochemist escape from China. His decision sets in motion a series of startling and all-too-believable events that resonate from Beijing to Washington.
An editor at The Washington Post, Ignatius (Agents of Innocence) is obviously having fun, but his mordant commentary on the sagging and compromised state of American journalism may make a reader wonder why journalistic mediocrity, as well as taking money from outside sources, is not also a firing offense. (Random House, $23)
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