The Paladin

David Ignatius

May 2020 · RB Media · Narrated by George Guidall

About this audiobook

CIA operations officer Michael Dunne is tasked with infiltrating an Italian news organization that smells like a
front for an enemy intelligence service. Headed by an American journalist, the self-styled bandits run a cyber operation
unlike anything the CIA has seen before. Fast, slick, and indiscriminate, the group steals secrets from everywhere and
anyone, and exploits them in ways the CIA can neither understand nor stop.

Dunne knows it’s illegal to run a covert op on an American citizen or journalist, but he has never refused an
assignment and his boss has assured his protection. Soon after Dunne infiltrates the organization, however, his cover
disintegrates. When news of the operation breaks and someone leaks that Dunne had an extramarital affair while on
the job, the CIA leaves him to take the fall. Now a year later, fresh out of jail, Dunne sets out to hunt down and take
vengeance on the people who destroyed his life.

About the author

George Guidall is one of the most prolific narrators of audiobooks in the world. He has recorded nearly 650 unabridged novels, everything from "Crime and Punishment" and "The Iliad" to "Snow Falling on Cedars." He began his career as an actor, appearing on Broadway and touring Europe with Helen Hayes in the "Glass Menagerie," " Miracle Worker" and "The Skin of Our Teeth." He received an Obie Award for Best Performance Off-Broadway, and has continued his performances in theater for over 40 years. Guidall has also appeared on television, with roles on the soap "One Life to Live" and "Law and Order," and in movies such as "Malcolm X" and "Tales from the Darkside." His first job reading audiobooks was for the Library of Congress' American Foundation for the Blinds' Talking Books. Since then he has won the most prestigious Audiobook Award, the Audie Award, for Best Unabridged Narration of a novel for his recording of John Irving's "A Widow for One Year." He won the Audie again in 2000 for Wally Lamb's "I Know This Much is True."