by C. S. Graham
• The widespread torture and murder of African children accused by evangelical Christian pastors of being witches is a very real problem. See ABC NewsNightline (abcnews.go.com/nightline), “Child Witches: Accused in the Name of Jesus,” original air date May 21, 2009; World News Network (wn.com), “Children of Congo: From War to Witches,” ICRC Interview, 11 parts, air dates not listed. Be warned, these images are haunting.
• For the early days of Christianity, see, among many others, The Jews in the Time of Jesus: An Introduction, by Stephen M. Wylen; and Jews and Christians: The Parting of the Ways, A.D. 70 to 135, by James D. G. Dunn. For the Assyrian Church, see, The Church of the East, an Illustrated History of Assyrian Christianity, by Christoph Baumer; and The Lost History of Christianity: The Thousand-Year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia—and How It Died, by John Philip Jenkins.
• For more on the destruction of the archaeological site of Babylon by the United States military, see especially UNESCO’s “Final Report on Damage Assessment in Babylon,” available online at unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0018/001831/183134E.pdf. On the theft of antiquities from Iraq, see Catastrophe! The Looting and Destruction of Iraq’s Past, by Geoff Emberling and Katheryn Hanson, editors, Oriental Institute, University of Chicago; and Antiquities under Siege: Cultural Heritage Protection after the Iraq War, by Lawrence Rothfield. The rumors that the thefts were preplanned and had some assistance are persistent, although little investigated. See among many others, “Professionals suspected in looting of museum,” International Herald Tribune, 21 April 2003.
• For the World Economic Forum and the power of the “Davos men,” see David Rothkopf’s book Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making.
• The MLFI is a creation of the authors. However, the U.S. government has been actively investigating the development of high-power microwave (HPM) weapons for years. Persistent, credible reports suggest such experimental weapons were used in both the Gulf War and the War on Iraq. Microwave “crowd control” weapons have also been developed and deployed, although they are proving controversial since they are not exactly “nonlethal.” All weapons of this nature developed so far are—to our knowledge—large. See “Details of US microwave-weapon tests revealed,” New Scientist, 22 July 2005; “High Power Microwaves: Strategic and Operational Implications for warfare,” by Colonel Eileen M. Walling, February 2000, at the Center for Strategy and Technology, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama; and “High-power microwave (HPM) E-Bomb,” at global Security.org.
• There is no law requiring rangers to report the license plates of cars left overnight in national parks.
About the Author
C.S. GRAHAM is the pseudonym of writing team Steven Harris and Candice Proctor. Steven Harris spent twenty-one years as an Army Intelligence officer. His career ranged from participation in the Army’s controversial domestic spying activities to running agents in Southeast Asia. He also spent ten years in Washington, D.C., working at the national intelligence level. Candice Proctor is the author of more than a dozen previous novels, including the critically acclaimed Sebastian St. Cyr mystery series published under the name C.S. Harris. A former academic with a Ph.D. in history, she has lived most of her life abroad, in Europe, the Middle East, and Australia. Visit their website at www.csgrahambooks.com.
By C. S. Graham
The Babylonian Codex
The Solomon Effect
The Archangel Project
Copyright
This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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Table of Contents
Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Epigraph
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Chapter 48
Chapter 49
Chapter 50
Chapter 51
Chapter 52
Chapter 53
Chapter 54
Chapter 55
Chapter 56
Chapter 57
Chapter 58
Chapter 59
Chapter 60
Chapter 61
Chapter 62
Chapter 63
Chapter 64
Chapter 65
Chapter 66
Chapter 67
Chapter 68
Author's Note
About the Author
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