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by Adrian Levy and Catherine Scott-Clark Walker and Company, 608 pages, $28.95 January/February 2008 Reviewed by Samanth Subramanian The full title  of Adrian Levy and Catherine Scott-Clark's book sounds, at first, too alarmist, as if it had been written for the next Jason Bourne movie. But this is a story that needs very little embellishment. With classically straightforward journalism,  Deception  covers the creation and proliferation of a rogue nuclear program, the campaign to mask it from international vision and the side effect formation of potent Islamic terror networks. An alternate edition of the book includes the word "conspiracy" in its subtitle; considering the levels of collusion that Mr. Levy and Ms. Scott-Clark pick apart, that word is well chosen. The dominant motif in  Deception  is essentially one of control–intelligence and military control of the executive branch in Pakistan, and in the United States, executive control of intellig