The Double Helix by James Watson

Linus Pauling's passport was denied from descending on London in Idlewood. If the State Department did not want Pauling in London because they considered him a "troublemaker." Watson and Francis were in London already at the Royal Society. There was major political tension between Linus and London because of his scientific irrationalism. It seemed to Watson something typical that Russia would do to not let a great scientist like Francis into a meeting which had …

…it possible for in the next few years to work out genetic organization of bacteria in the next few years. He meets up with Bill Hayes. Watson also finds that Franklin's X-ray patterns were getting better and better with steady improvement. Franklin has begun to fin that sugar phosphate chains had to be on the outside of the DNA molecule. This is found to also be a important step in solving the structure of DNA.