David Ignatius: Siro (UK 2013)

From the Publisher:
Made restless by the tightening restrictions of CIA bureaucracy, agent Alan Taylor oversteps moral and legal bounds in a top-secret mission to destabilize the Soviet Union. His new recruit -- the beautiful Anna Barnes, who struggles with complex feelings for Taylor -- receives a deeper education than she signed up for in David Ignatius's trademark world of shifting international and domestic pressures, hidden loyalties, and secret agendas.

David Ignatius: Siro. A Novel. Quercus eBooks, ISBN: 9781848667471 (December, 2013), 1574 KB (ca. 625 p.), £4.99.

David Ignatius: Siro (USA 2013)

From the Publisher:
Made restless by the tightening restrictions of CIA bureaucracy, agent Alan Taylor oversteps moral and legal bounds in a top-secret mission to destabilize the Soviet Union. His new recruit - the beautiful Anna Barnes, who struggles with complex feelings for Taylor - receives a deeper education than she signed up for in David Ignatius's trademark world of shifting international and domestic pressures, hidden loyalties, and secret agendas.

David Ignatius: Siro. A Novel. W. W. Norton, ISBN: 9780393346305 (May, 2013), 614 p., $14.95.

David Ignatius: Siro (USA 1991)

From the Publisher:
This realistic spy story is set in 1979 Istanbul, the city where modern espionage began. The Shah has fled Iran and the Russians are headed for Afghanistan. CIA operatives, Anna Barnes and Alan Taylor attempt to find a way to exploitthe Soviets at their ragged edges -- Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Georgia. As he does so well in his novel, Agents of Innocence, Ignatius takes the reader into the real world of the CIA with its emphasis on ever-shiftinginternational and domestic pressures.

David Ignatius: Siro. A Novel. Farrar Straus Giroux, ISBN: 0374265062 (April, 1991), 465 p., $19.95.