(2005). On U.S. biological and chemical warfare projects, see Seymour Hersh, Chemical and Biological Warfare: America’s Hidden Arsenal (1969), and William Broad, Stephen Engelberg, and Judith Miller, Germs: Biological Weapons and America’s Secret War (2001). On modern ethnic biowarfare, see the British Medical Association Report, Biotechnology, Weapons, and Humanity (1999); the article reported in the London Sunday Times by Uzi Mahnaimi and Marie Colvin, “Israel Planning ‘ethnic bomb’ (November 1998); and “Lethal Legacy: Bioweapons for Sale,” an article by Joby Warrick and John Mintz in the Sunday, April 20, 2003 Washington Post on the sale of apartheid-era South African manmade pathogens to the private sector.
The “People of the Book Conference” draws upon various references in the Qur’an, where Christians and Jews are referred to as “People of the Book,” i.e., those who have received and believe previous revelations of God’s prophets, including the Jewish Torah, the Book of Psalms, and the Four Christian Gospels. In Islam, the Qur’an is seen as the completion of these earlier scriptures. See, for instance, “Surely those who believe, and those who are Jews, and Christians, and the Sabians-whoever believes in God and the Last Day and does good, they shall have their reward from the Lord. And that will be no fear for them, nor shall they grieve.” (Qur’an 2:62, 5:69, and many others) In Judaism, “People of the Book” tends to be applied specifically to the Jewish people and the Torah.
About the Author
Author Candice Proctor, one half of writing team C. S. Graham, in Essaouira, Morocco.
Author Steve Harris, one half of writing team C. S. Graham, at a parade in Clinton, Louisiana.
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.
