Based on 100s of interviews over the past decae in the U.S., Pakistan, India, Israel, the Middle East, Europe and Southeast Asia, deception is a masterpiece or reporting and dramatic storytelling by two of the world's most resourceful investigative journalists. The book provides deep insight into the ways our foreign policy is formulated. Deception is the most complete account of Pakistan's clandestine nuclear network as it has extended from Islamabad around the world. Every American administration from Jimmy Carter's to George W. Bush's has condoned Pakistan's nuclear activity, secretly supplying components and equipment to Pakistan in the full knowledge that they could be used in a nuclear program.