Joseph Anton - A Memoir

On Valentine's Day 1989, Salman Rushdie was telephoned by a BBC journalist and told that he had been `sentenced to death' by Ayatollah Khomeini. For the first time he heard the word fatwa. His crime? To have written a novel called The Satanic Verses', which was accused of being `against Islam, the Prophet and the Quran.' Joseph Anton was the alias he chose for use by his police protection team...