Agents of Innocence Audiobook By David Ignatius cover art

Agents of Innocence

A Novel

 Preview
LIMITED TIME OFFER

3 months free
Try for $0.00
Offer ends July 31, 2025 at 11:59PM PT.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
Premium Plus auto-renews for $14.95/mo after 3 months. Cancel anytime.

Agents of Innocence

By: David Ignatius
Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
Try for $0.00

$0.00/mo. after 3 months. Offer ends July 31, 2025 at 11:59PM PT. Cancel anytime.

Buy for $21.49

Buy for $21.49

Confirm purchase
Pay using card ending in
Switch payment method
By confirming your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use, License, and Amazon's Privacy Notice. Taxes where applicable.
Cancel

Agents of Innocence is the book that established David Ignatius's reputation as a master of the novel of contemporary espionage. Into the treacherous world of shifting alliances and arcane subterfuge comes idealistic CIA man Tom Rogers. Posted in Beirut to penetrate the PLO and recruit a high-level operative, he soon learns the heavy price of innocence in a time and place that has no use for it.

©1987 David Ignatius (P)2018 Tantor Espionage Spies & Politics Thriller & Suspense Middle East Africa Fiction Russia
Excellent Character Development • Intriguing Historical Context • Nuanced Political Intricacies • Thought-provoking Epilogue
Highly rated for:
All stars
Most relevant  
This is a well-written book. The performance was excellent giving each character a different voice and, thereby, a different personality. The book is somewhat historical fiction interweaving real time periods and events with the fictitious story.
The main character, Tom Rogers, is an affable person who has human flaws. His boss, Hoffman, is pragmatic and non conventional….someone who you might envision not seeing eye-to-eye with the bureaucracy of an agency such as the CIA. Yet at the same time, understands the rules of the game. Overall an excellent book and great narrative.

Well written story.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
great story, wonderful development of fictional characters on a historical background. Ignatius knows what he's talking about. beautifully performed

perfect spy novel

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Engrossing and thrilling. Prepare for an immersion into the complexities of the Middle East and the horror of the Lebanese civil war

Fantastic from start to finish

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
good ending and moral...too long to get there. not enough action. some very good characters.zzzzzs aaaaq

good overview of CIA

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
The tender sensibilities of spies slide down a slippery slope leaving perdition in the wake of empires based on looting and pillage? Not to worry; colonialism is over, the white man’s burden is falling of its own weight. Ignatius does not need to apologize for the 1% today. Brzensky imagined the game would hold up. The 99% is cruising the information highway, watching the center as it folds. The book is well written, the reading of it wonderful. Excellent history described, maybe there’s a happier era fast coming on but other challenges will keep humanity busy.

The rest of the story

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I’ll admit I almost stopped, listening in the beginning because it began so slowly. It was the character development, and the storylines that held my attention.

Interesting

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
in the many years since David Ignatius first wrote this book. Great historical background woven into this fiction. (I think it’s fiction!) so prescient of our current moment.

Nothing has changed

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
The book explores morality questions that take place in the spy game. Well written and narrated3, it is a must listen.

Unexpected Ending

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Interesting and intense, Agents of Innocence is well written and very well narrated I’m impressed. This book deserves to be a classic.

A classic

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
One of the first books I read in my early years. led me to read most of Ignatius' catalog. A cold war era spy novel with no Russians, so certainly different. given our current geopolitical world this book is poignant. A fun spy novel from a time before Bin Laden when Arabs and Muslims were seen in a different light. Worth your time

a 4.5 in a 4 or 5 world

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
See more reviews