The Increment
A Novel

David Ignatius creates and builds upon an engagingly textured environment of spies and third world nuclear threat to create a realistic and fun espionage thriller. While I'd give Ignatius' effort three starts for the intricacies of the fiction as literature, I'd move it to a solid four stars for the......more

I kind of plowed through this spy thriller pretty quickly as the story had me really engaged. It's about a disillusioned scientist in Iran who wants to warn the CIA about Iran's progress and lack of progress on building a nuclear bomb. He's fed up, worried and wants to get out. I thought it was quit......more

A very good spy novel which is also about real politics and the real world. An Iranian nuclear scientist has decided to risk everything to alert the West that Iran is still working to build nuclear bombs. He sends an email to the CIA to let them know, and the email eventually lands in the lap of Har......more

While waiting for my library to release “Body of Lies”, I tried this, and since David Ignatius is a veteran journalist, it is a readable novel. He showcases the relationship between the intelligence community and political leadership, and the dominance of form versus function, politically. An import......more

Washington Post columnist and editor David Ignatius has covered wars, diplomacy, and the intelligence community in a long journalistic career. His reporting infuses the ten suspense and espionage novels he has written over the past thirty years. The Increment, published in 2009, dramatizes the hyste......more