Burning Red

By: Ignatius, David

It's summer 2009, and the CIA thinks it owns China. Its hidden agents have infiltrated every ministry, operating at will amid the country's exploding wealth and corruption. Then, catastrophe: Messages stop. Safe channels turn deadly. The agency's network of agents is "burning red." A Chinese counterstrike has gutted an apparent triumph of American espionage. Has Beijing uncovered the network from the outside, or is there a mole inside the CIA itself?

An instant classic by one of the great masters of spy fiction, Burning Red evokes a CIA in crisis, as case officers attempt to thwart the Chinese Ministry of State Security before it blinds the US intelligence network at the heart of the emerging superpower. Inspired by the most important and consequential spy story of the last two decades, Burning Red is a ripping thriller with real geopolitical stakes: A clash of spies that may determine the future.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 132411083X
• ISBN13: 9781324110835
• Release Date: May 2027
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 336 Pages