Deception; Pakistan, the United States, and the Secret Trade in Nuclear Weapons

New York: Walker and Company, 2007. First U.S. Edition [stated]. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Jeff Edwards (Maps). xxii, 586 pages. Maps. Illustrations. Principal Characters. List of abbreviations and Acronyms. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Adrian Levy (born 1965) is a journalist and film maker who currently writes for The Guardian. Specializing in long-form investigative work, his pieces most often filed from Asia are published in The Guardian's Weekend magazine. Levy's work has also appeared in The Observer, The Sunday Times magazine, as well as being syndicated in the US, Australasia and across Europe. Levy has also written non-fiction books. Levy has also co-produced documentaries for the BBC and Channel 4, as well as broadcasting on BBC Radio 4 and the BBC World Service. Much of his work has been a collaboration with the journalist and author Cathy Scott-Clark. In 2009, Levy and Scott-Clark were jointly made British Journalist of the Year at the One World Media awards, having been British Foreign Journalist of the Year in 2004. Derived from a Kirkus review: British journalists Levy and Scott-Clark offer persuasive evidence that the United States looked the other way for years while Pakistan developed a nuclear bomb and exported weapons technology to Iran, North Korea and other enemies of the West. In the early 1970s, Pakistani scientist A. Q. Khan stole European centrifuge technology to enrich uranium and developed his secret research laboratory in Kahuta. The authors provide detailed accounts of Khan's dealings with Western suppliers, his relations with a succession of his country's leaders and his wooing of customers in "Axis of Evil" and other nations. The silencing of former CIA and Pentagon analyst Richard Barlow, the leading in-house expert on Pakistan's weapons program, who fought to bring the truth to Congress, is one of many outrages recounted in this tale of expediency run amok. Simultaneously astonishing, maddening and absolutely frightening.