Influence, blood money, body of lies and most recently, the quantum spy. This is part of our 2018 special fiction addition of indepth. Host David Ignatius, whats the premise of the quantum spy. Guest the us is locked in a new Manhattan Project race to build a piece of technology that is world changing, that is the quantum computer and our principal rival in that race is china. I told you as far as simply the facts, the the quantum spy is a novel that imagines characters who involve intelligencebattles , and other secrets about this world changingtechnology. Principally its the story of my hero orest chang. An officer who is asked to penetrate the Chinese Intelligence Service and in the process learned things about himself, things about the cia, they do not how the world works that shake him to his foundation and we also see in this novel how the Chinese Intelligence Services , not so familiar to readers as five fiction. We all feel weve been in Moscow Center with carla and the russian
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