Any action, thought, trait, or dialogue in this book—whether pertaining to imagined or real-life characters, dead or alive, standing up or sitting down—is completely fictitious. The island of Pulau is not Singapore nor any other tropical haven the author is aware of. (You Alaskans wish.) Similarly, the American Institute of Middle Eastern Studies in Cairo is not a real university in the Middle East or North America. This is a novel.
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Copyright © Burnaby Hawkes, 2020
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Published in Canada in 2020 by Athena Book Tavern.
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ISBN-13: 978-1-7772024-3-9
In memory of my father
[It] is an abominable mystery.
Charles Darwin, 1879
A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
Matthew 7:19
