Directorate S (SIGNED to Title Page) Hardcover w/ dust jacket cover - 2018

HARDCOVER. SIGNED at the Book Signing Event. Directorate S - The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan By Steve Coll (2018). SIGNED, to the full title page by Steve Coll, the author. Brand New and Never owned. This is a FIRST Edition, FIRST Printing copy as stated on the copyright page. Dust jacket is in Brand New condition with no issues. Book has no tears, marks, creases, remainder marks, library markings, or black lines on the edges. Not inscribed to anyone. Not price-clipped, not a Book Club Edition (BCE), or signed on a bookplate. True Collectible Quality. First Edition, First Printing, hand SIGNED to the full title page. No inscription; full signature only. From the National Book Critics Circle Awards Celebration at The New School in New York City on March 14, 2019. FREE: The color National Book Critics Circle Awards Celebration program plus a two-sided, color, souvenir bookmark featuring the NBCC Finalists for publishing year 2018 and a two-sided, color, souvenir bookmark featuring the John Leonard Prize featuring winner Tommy Orange and copies of four book reviews are included. This book will be carefully wrapped and shipped via USPS mail with free delivery confirmation. **** Winner of the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction and Longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award for Nonfiction. Steve Coll is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the C.I. A., Afghanistan and Bin Laden from the Soviet Union to September 10, 2001, and the dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University, and from 2007 to 2013 was president of the New America Foundation, a public policy institute in Washington, D.C. He is a staff writer for The New Yorker and previously worked for twenty years at The Washington Post, where he received a Pulitzer Prize for explanatory journalism in 1990. He is the author of eight books, including On the Grand Trunk Road, The Bin Ladens, and Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power. Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan were published on February 6, 2018. ISBN: 978-1594-2045-86. BS12649.