In the near future, America has become the Islamic Republic of America. New York, Washington and Mecca redioactive death zones, destroyed by nuclear bombs planted by men claiming to be Mossad. A historian uncovers information that questions their claims and and the nation that was built upon it.

Prayers for the Assassin is a very different book. On one hand it is a brilliant thriller, a hunt between an assassin and his prey, a search for the truth, a tale of standing up and doing the right thing. On the other, it is a story about a potential future where everything about America had turned on its head. Muslim law rules the land, secret police enforce the law with swift and often harsh treatment.

This is an utter page turner, a book that intrigues, informs about the Islamic religion and captivates the reader with its portrayal of the future. Looking forward to the sequel.

I can’t say the first attempt as that track is lost in the distant past of my teenage years. The second attempt was made with Cakewalk and a lot of soundfonts.

Soundfonts are similar to normal computer fonts, the obvious different being that rather than changing how letters appear, they change the tone and timbre of notes created on the computer. While I haven’t looked for new soundfonts for sometime, there were plenty available for free when I did last update my collection. They can range from a very basic tone to multiple sampled drum sets. Some of the soundfonts are ultra realistic whilst others are perhaps not so professional. You need good sized memory to fully utilize soundfonts as they are loaded into memory before use.

The guitar solo at the start of the track was written by hand, and when I say hand I mean mouse as I was unable to actually play the solo. I used a guitar to slowly, and boy do I mean slowly work out the notes which I then put into the track one note at a time.

I like the changes the track goes through, although I have ‘remixed’ it since and added a lot more to the second half as well as replacing or updating much of it.

This is the original track

[audio http://www.mediamax.com/welshrogue/Hosted/xag13-boo1.mp3]

This is the ‘remixed track

[audio http://www.mediamax.com/welshrogue/Hosted/Xag13-Boo1-RM.mp3]