I it I am on my mind books this month I'll be sharing a few conversations

on my monthly book button series. Today Washington Post foreign affairs

columnist and novelist David Ignatius. Often I begin with subjects that interested me in my journalism

that I wanted to take to a different place. I selected Ignatius book The Paladin as my November

of 2022 read his high tech thriller explores the question what happens when bad actors

move beyond hacking to creating false realities. I first welcome the panel up

yes to discuss the novel and the Spice Rillers genre. You can find it recording

at that at dianne reem.org slash book club. Then David Ignatius joined me on Zoom

to talk about what inspired the story as well as his decades long career moving

between fact and fiction. Welcome to the latest conversation in my author

interviews series part of the Dianne reem book club. Today we have the honor of welcoming

David Ignatius, Spine novelist and foreign affairs columnist at the Washington Post.

He's covered the US intelligence community for decades and nearly that long

he's transformed the true stories of his reporting into thrilling tales that

explores some of the biggest international issues of the day. His latest is his

20 20 work The Paladin where he turned his focus to cyber security and the growing

threat posed by disinformation and artificial intelligence. He joins me now to

discuss that and much more. David, welcome and thank you for joining us.

I'm so pleased to be with you. I think I was first on your radio program nearly

40 years ago in the 1980s. I'd loved chance to work with you talk about issues

that matter. It's a special pleasure to talk about this book today. I was lucky enough as I hope

others were to listen to the last hours conversation by three people who read the book

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