title: The Book of Lies
author:  Aleister Crowley 
description: Aleister Crowley (1875-1947) was a magus, poet, sexual athlete, mountaineer, traitor, drug fiend, and Prophet of a New Eon. He has been dubbed "The Wickedest Man in the World." Author of 777, Diary of a Drug Fiend, and Book of Lies, as well as many other books, Crowley, with Freida Harris, also created the bestselling Thoth Tarot Deck.
zlib_text: THE INCREMENT
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ALSO BY DAVID IGNATIUS
  
  Agents of Innocence
  
  Siro
  
  The Bank of Fear
  
  A Firing Offense
  
  The Sun King
  
  Body of Lies
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  A NOVEL
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  THE INCREMENT
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  David Ignatius
  
  W. W. NORTON & COMPANY
  
  NEW YORK LONDON
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright © 2009 by David Ignatius
  
  All rights reserved
  
  “The Demon-King Zahnak,” from Shanameh: The Persian Book of Kings by Abolqasem
  Ferdowsi, foreword by Azar Nafisi, translated by Dick Davis, copyright © 1997,
  2000, 2004 by Mage Publishers, Inc. Used by permission of Viking Penguin, a
  division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
  
  Excerpt from “My Country I Will Build You Again” and “O Box Within Box” from A
  Cup of Sin: Selected Poems by Simin Behbehani edited and translated from the
  Persian by Farzeneh Milani and Kaveh Safa (Syracuse University Press,
  Syracuse, NY, 1999).
  
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