David Ignatius Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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David Ignatius is a columnist for the Washington Post. I am a columnist for the Washington Post, a former Harvard Kennedy School fellow and author of eleven espionage thrillers.

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
J. D. Vance
As we think about racial division in America, here's a fascinating July post by Steve Hammons about shared experience of poor Blacks and Whites in the Middletown Ohio area where "Hillbilly Elegy" author J.D. Vance and columnist Clarence Page both grew up. https://t.co/folQw5e1TA
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Artificial Intelligencia
Richard A. Clarke
Richard A. Clarke in-conversation with David Ignatius: Artificial Intelligencia – Crowdcast https://t.co/FeRoDDnnsq
Hardcover, 2022
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Tao of Deception: Unorthodox Warfare in Historic and Modern China
Ralph D. Sawyer
Shameless plug dept.: I've been writing about the spy world in my journalism and fiction since the 1980s, but the "summer spy serial" we launched in the Post today, "The Tao of Deception," was a fun new twist. Hope readers enjoy it. Here's link to Part I. https://t.co/kFFiW9UCPW
Hardcover, 2007
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Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II
Evan Thomas
Must read at a moment when Russia threatens tactical nukes is Evan Thomas’s new historical thriller about Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II https://t.co/aDSz0tWuPT #Amazon
Paperback, Large Print, 2023
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Every War Must End
Fred Charles Iklé
In the agonizing final years of the Vietnam War, a strategist named Fred Iklé wrote a treatise titled “Every War Must End.” His basic theme was that “wars are easier to start than to stop” — a message that applies powerfully now to the conflict in Ukraine. https://t.co/8MF5Nh1lmO
Paperback, 2005
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The Quantum Spy: A Thriller
David Ignatius
Super-exciting that @TheLewisTan wants to star in a television version of my novel “The Quantum Spy,” with the superb Chinese American screenwriter Dave Kalstein as show runner. Just wow. https://t.co/89Rpgn3CI3
Paperback, 2018
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The Key Man: The True Story of How the Global Elite Was Duped by a Capitalist Fairy Tale
Simon Clark
For an astonishing story of how the globalized economy can be manipulated, read the devastating account in “The Key Man” by @SimonWSJ and Will Louch of machinations of financier Arif Naqvi. #The Key Man: The True Story of How the Global Elite Wa... https://t.co/ygyNxY0Dbl #Amazon
Hardcover, 2021
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Test Gods: Virgin Galactic and the Making of a Modern Astronaut
Nicholas Schmidle
Looking forward to talking Tuesday with @nickschmidle about his amazing new book. Test Gods. https://t.co/hWqEzBN4x6
Paperback, 2022
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The Paladin: A Spy Novel
David Ignatius
From Adam LeBor's review today in @FT: "For Michael Dunne, protagonist of David Ignatius’s enthralling new thriller The Paladin, abandonment by the agency is just the start. His family life collapses, his intimate secrets are blasted across the internet and he is imprisoned.
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