Deception: Pakistan, the United States and the Global Nuclear Weapons Conspiracy |
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Adrian Levy, Catherine Scott-Clark
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Pages: 608 (Hardcover)
ISBN: 1843545330
Pub: Atlantic Books
Pub date: 2007-09-01
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 25799
Reader Reviews:
Enlightening frightening and brilliant (2/2 people found this helpful)
As events in South Asia and the war on terror crash all around us, fired by the lies told us by Downing Street and the White House, this book puts all of it in a new perspective that was dazzling. I read it in a week, despite its length. If you want to know how we got into this mess, the lies we have been told, going back far further than the war in Iraq, then I am sure anyone would find this book essential reading. A book of the year.
A bad Bond novel (0/4 people found this helpful)
I couldn't stop but smile sometimes laugh out loud throughout my read. This book is james bond cross Jason Bourne. As a serious read one should take it with a bucket rather than a pinch of Salt. Titles like this sell well and that is what Mr. Levy knows very well aswell as leveling public opinion this earn money for Mr. Levy( Levy has strong connections with Israel A country that is involved in Nuclear proliferation in the name of Technology trasfer from USA to Israel Demona is no work of Isreali Genius its copy cated from States)
All and all an usubstantiated fairy tale. Two stars for its fictional value
Horribly readable and ultimately terrifying (2/2 people found this helpful)
I got hold of this as I had read other things by the authors but nothing quite prepared me for Deception. It is a shift away from their previous work into a fast-paced and brilliantly written snapshot of how we have walked into another nuclear winter with our eyes closed, thanks once again to the deception of the Bush administration - among other things.
The lie exposed in this book pre-dates all of America's other lies, concerning as it does Pakistan whose WMD programme was incredibly enabled by the US, that then turned a blind as they sold it on. But what makes this exceptional is that having claimed Pakistan as an ally, post 9/11, the US then suppressed all intelligence on its WMD programme in order to advance a bogus case for war against the WMD arsenal of Saddam Hussein.
If you want to know how we reached where we are - living in fear of terrorism and looking over our shoulder, this book takes you close to the edge.
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