Today’s Between the Covers podcast is with David Ignatius, author of The Increment, which is the second-best spy novel on Iran to come out this year. What’s the very best? I think you know. Anyway, Ignatius is a very good writer of thrillers. Several years ago, I asked former CIA director Jim Woolsey to pick his favorite spy novel. He said if you’re looking for a story that conveys a sense of what CIA officers actually do in real life, the best book is Agents of Innocence, which came out in 1987 and is set primarily in the Middle East. Two decades later, Ignatius is still at it.