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The Babylonian Codex

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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

  By C. S. Graham

  Copyright

  About the Publisher

 

 

 
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