The Scorpio Illusion

The novel "consciously draws on Freudian theory to lend depth to his treatment of the two dominant characters, a psychotic woman, driven by childhood traumas to emasculate dominant males and to destroy all symbols of male hierarchical power, and her opponent, a weakened, age-conscious male reaffirming his masculine strengths."^[1]

There is a factual error in the novel. Telephone conversations using scrambling are an important plot element in this novel. However, from about half-way through^[2] one side of the call is on a normal telephone. This is impossible; both phones must be equipped with compatible scrambler/descramblers.