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
The quantum computer the principal rival ms. China that the quantum spy is a novel that the characters to be involved to see who can steal the other secret over changing technology but simply it is the story of my hero. Of a cia officer who is asked to penetrate the Chinese Intelligence Service and in process learn things about himself and the cia that she came up to his foundation. Not so familiar to readers of Science Fiction like the russian spy world but but it takes us into the world of security. That is the principal antagonist in the book. Host how much is real . I always say the preface exist in the imagined world if you take any book that i write the menu and up with the mud pie. E. But that said i try to do a lot of research i research that for many months going to the computer laboratories and i travel to every place mentioned in the book study the Chinese Intelligence Service. Would be those characters o dont exist in real life but it is as real as i could make it be and st
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And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Investigative journalist Annie Jacobsen has written what she says is the definitive history of the militarys decades long experiment with mental powers like esp. Her new book reveals how the government used psychic spies during the iran hostage crisis and the cia search for psychedelic mushrooms. It is called phenomena, the secret history of the u. S. Governments investigations into extra Sensory Perception and psycho kin easis. Annie, good to have you back on this program. Thank you. Can you see this, jonathan . This is like, you write these texts that are like theyre so dense. It is a big story. It is a big story, but thats a lot of research though. You just keep going at it. Thats the joy of it. I mean i interviewed a lot of scientists. All of the original cia scientists and the dod scientists and a lot of the psychics themselves. Yeah. So you just write in it when youre doing that. And you heard what . I mea
And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Investigative journalist Annie Jacobsen has written what she says is the definitive history of the militarys decades long experiment with mental powers like esp. Her new book reveals how the government used psychic spies during the iran hostage crisis and the cia search for psychedelic mushrooms. It is called phenomena, the secret history of the u. S. Governments investigations into extra Sensory Perception and psycho kin easis. Annie, good to have you back on this program. Thank you. Can you see this, jonathan . This is like, you write these texts that are like theyre so dense. It is a big story. It is a big story, but thats a lot of research though. You just keep going at it. Thats the joy of it. I mean i interviewed a lot of scientists. All of the original cia scientists and the dod scientists and a lot of the psychics themselves. Yeah. So you just write in it when youre doing that. And you heard what . I mea