The Babylon Gene is a work of fiction based on real events and situations of recent history. While interpretations of those events and situations are entirely the author’s, the historical, scientific and theological background to the story has been thoroughly researched.
The Yezidis are a real people, the inheritors of an ancient spiritual and historical tradition. All of the Yezidi characters in the novel are fictional. The characters’ involvement in military and intelligence operations is likewise fictional. A select bibliography is included at the end of the novel.