* CASE CLOSED – Lew’s novel about the anthrax attacks and the failed FBI investigation – has been re-published. In this interview, Lew explains why perhaps his novel is closer to the truth than anything the FBI is asserting.
Posted by DXer on July 24, 2015
Here is the link to the interview …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8A2ybdHTziA
purchase CASE CLOSED at amazon … kindle $3.99, paper $14.95
DXer said
Naples man writes bioterrorism thriller about fictional local hero
Kristine Gill, kristine.gill@naplesnews.com; 239-403-6174 3:11 p.m. EDT July 21, 2016
The book’s main character is Martin Riker, a former US Army officer and expert at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is called out of retirement after a Syrian man who recently came to the States dies of the smallpox virus. The doctor soon learns that a group of terrorists plans to spread the virus to readers of the New York Times by adding strains of the virus to ink at the printing press.
“Research has shown that just one or two particles is enough to start the infection in people,” Norins said. “So you don’t have to drown in ink.”
There’s also a little love story wound in for Riker, whose beau considers moving to sunny Naples by the end, Norins said.
Norins got the idea for the book back in the late ’90s when he read the true story of a Russian defector who revealed his country’s WWII plans for biological warfare including smallpox. That got Norins thinking about the ramifications in a society that has largely dismissed smallpox as a concern.
http://www.naplesnews.com/story/life/2016/07/19/naples-man-writes-bioterrorism-thriller-fictional-local-hero/86939478/
Comment: I read all these articles about terrorism but never see the acts as a useful strategy or tactic. And under the belief system of jihadists, use of smallpox would cause the jihadist to lose their soul.
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