Title: Deception; Pakistan, the United States and the Secret Trade in Nuclear Weapons
Authors: Adrian Levy and Catherine Scott-Clark
ISBN: 978-0-8027-1554-8
Publisher: Walker Publishing Company
Review By: Diana Rohini LaVigne, Indian Life & Style Magazine
Deception; Pakistan, the United States and the Secret Trade in Nuclear Weapons is one of the most compelling current events accounts of recent times. Authors Adrian Levy and Catherine Scott-Clark use their years as leading investigative journalists and their vast knowledge of the topic to create a book that reads like a page-turning gripping thriller instead of a landmark book that questions the history and accounts of the Pakistani nuclear program.
Deception reveals the inner working of United States politics, foreign policy making and the secrets around the trade of nuclear weapons in Pakistan. It’s clear to see how complex this issue is and how, without this book, the common American couldn’t comprehend its complexities. This is a call to awareness and invites the public to pay attention to the back room meetings of those elected officials that we put in office.
Readers only need to notice the nearly one hundred pages of notes in the back of the book to recognize the level of the in-depth investigation and fact-checking which went into this fiery account of how the West continues to deceive everyone standing on the world’s stage. Although it’s hard to recognize how balanced the views of the journalists are, they are at the top of their field by every account. They’ve put their reputations on the line to produce this mind-boggling controversial and revealing chronicle. And it appears they’ve stayed true to the global reporting code of ethics.
Deception; Pakistan, the United States and the Secret Trade in Nuclear Weapons is a landmark book from a well-respected journalism team. I’d love to see this book incorporated into foreign policy course curriculums globally. We have seen the evidence; it is a book that entertains readers and commands a call to action.