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From the author of the best-selling Body of Lies and The Increment in a tragedy of revenge the CIA falls victim to its own daring operation in the Middle East Someone in Pakistan is killing the members of a new CIA intelligence unit that is trying to buy peace with Americas enemies It falls to Sophie Marx a young CIA officer with a big chip on her shoulder to figure out whos doing the killing and why Her starting point is Alphabet Capital the London hedge fund that has been providing cover for this secret operation but the investigation soon widens to include the capitals of the Middle East and the cruel hills of South Waziristan Sophie thinks she has the backing of her hard-nosed boss Jeffrey Gertz and his genial mentor at headquarters Cyril Hoffman In addition she gets help from the well-mannered lieutenant general heading Pakistans Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate But the closer Sophie gets to her quarry the more she realizes that nothing in this gallery of mirrors is quite what it seems This is a theater of violence and retribution in which the last act is one that Sophie could not have imagined David Ignatius has written a disturbing and compelling novel where the price of unchecked government is paid in blood and peace can be bought only through betrayal.