As I explained by the last post, the book WEAPONS GRADE is actually by Don Bentley. But let's get over that and say something about the plot. One thing that Clancy fans (and fans of the whole enterprise) like about these novels is that the author can often work in a surprising amount of quite technical exposition, ideally without losing the thread of a suspenseful spy story. Consider the discussion of the process of enriching uranium into weapons grade material. That is crucial to the book, and in fact gives it the title. On p. 279 you get a full paragraph in which Mary Pat Foley, Director of National Intelligence, is describing this process, in the White House Situation Room, to Scott Adler, Secretary of State. "The process of enriching uranium is a straight-forward, well-understood task. Feed material in the form of gaseous uranium hexaflouride is fed into a series of linked centrifuges, known as a cascade. The centrifuges spin at extremely high speeds, generating ce...