Books
March, 1981
Spectrum (Viking), a novel by David Wise, gives us plausible plotting, fascinating content and a frightening scenario--the possibility that the CIA has stolen uranium and made nuclear weapons for its own future use. The basic story makes a good read. Better yet, the details are accurate, from descriptions of covert operations run by the CIA to surveillance capabilities of the NSA, to a fine sense of how an American Embassy operates abroad (the London station, in this case) on a day-to-day basis....