Jihad

AUTHORS’ NOTE:

In this work of fiction all of the characters, organizations and events portrayed are either products of the authors’ imagination or are used fictitiously. In particular, the National Security Agency, Central Intelligence Agency, Space Agency, Federal Bureau of Investigation, National Security Council, and Marines are, of course, real. While based on an actual organization affiliated with the NSA and CIA, Desk Three and all of the people associated with it in this book are fiction. The technology depicted here either exists or is being developed.

Some liberties have been taken in describing actual places and procedures to facilitate the telling of the tale. Details of some security procedures and apparatus at actual places have been omitted or recast as a matter of the public interest.