spy stories

    The Quantum Spy by David Ignatius

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    I remember a year or so ago when Justin Trudeau was asked a snarky question about quantum computing, and proceeded to explain it in language we could understand…and the whole concept of things being two things at once kind of blew my mind. “Things can be in two places at once. The coin is both …

    The Outsider by Fredric Forsyth

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    In the early 1970s, I read The Day of the Jackal, and it changed my reading habits forever (in a good wayJ). It probably remains my favorite novel by Fredric Forsyth, although The Dogs of War and The Odessa File rank right up there… I had no idea that Forsyth’s tales of espionage and intrigue were …