The Nadjik Pheromone

2009 Next Generation Indie Book Ward finalist in Fiction, Action-Adventure! War correspondent Michael Wolfson's passion to end torture, genocide, and crimes against humanity leads to a scientific revolution in truth technology that must survive attempted destruction by powerful secret, government, corporate and underworld organizations.  Human behavior based on verifiable truth sounds good, but not to the array of powerful and desperate adversaries any such truth science would face for whom it would spell the end of secrecy, illicit power and influence, the fruits of corruption, violence, and crimes against humanity. The Nadjik Pheromone project is state-of-the-art spectrometry: the technology that sniffs the desert air for nerve agents, and blower towers at airports sniffing for the molecular residue of explosives. Most of the technology already existed needing only an inspirational concept contributed by an international war correspondent striving for the end of genocide and war crimes. The Nadjik Pheromone starts in Bosnia and ends in Washington, D.C. EPILOGUE Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) analysis techniques are reality today, not science fiction. This sophisticated analytical technology is utilized by every forensic laboratory around the world. Gas chromatography separates and isolates individual compounds in complex chemical mixtures. Analysis by a mass spectrometer is capable of nearly single molecule identification and characterizations. In The Nadjik Pheromone, Michael Hemp presents a fictional, robotic system a computer guided gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) instrument able to detect specific, universal biological molecular markers for the human act of lying. While monitoring breath and specialized skin pore concentrations for deception compounds, this new GC-MS lie detector technology literally smells the truth in gaseous chemical pheromone-like human effusion. Far from fictional, today, the application of GC-MS analysis technology is utilized by every forensic laboratory around the world and has developed to a point that highly dilute, complex chemical ultratrace mixtures can be identified and characterized routinely. Today, computer guided GC-MS instruments at airport security stations are typically autonomous, able to detect ultratrace drugs, explosives, and other dangerous substances evaporating off clothing and baggage. Additionally, electronic minia-turization allows modern GC-MS instruments to be taken out of the laboratory and directly into the field for various forensic investigations. What is new in the premise of The Nadjik Pheromone is the search for the specific bio-chemical fingerprints for the human act of lying. The futuristic Nadjik Pheromone lie detector breath and pore analysis technology may soon be a reality for all of us. Brian D. Andresen, Ph.D. Forensic Scientist and Consultant Retired Forensic Science Director, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Dr. Andresen is holder of numerous Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS) Patents, author of numerous scientific publications, and lead scientist in the Angel of Death investigation and numerous other forensic cases utilizing GC-MS.