United Kingdom Special Branch officers took charge of his protection, dubbing their risky work Operation Malachite. However, " Joseph Anton" ( Random House 636 pages $30) is the author's own riveting account of how it felt to be reviled and endangered by violent strangers because of a book that most had never read. Like the Dreyfus Affair, the Rushdie affair has inspired commentary both sympathetic and hostile. Anyone killing the author of "The Satanic Verses" could count on a bounty of millions of dollars, as well as admission to heaven. 14, 1989, the Supreme Leader of Iran, the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, issued a valentine in the form of a fatwa: "I inform the proud Muslim people of the world that the author of the 'Satanic Verses' book, which is against Islam, the Prophet and the Qur'an, and all those involved in its publication who were aware of its content, are sentenced to death." A native of India residing in England, Rushdie had no ties to Iran, but Khomeini's order made him the world's top terrorist target.
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