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Lawrence Wright generally enjoys reflecting reality in his writings, or outright denouncing it as he did with Scientology . In his latest novel, titled The End of October , Lawrence takes us on a global adventure alongside Henry Parsons, an epidemiologist tasked with trying to stop the spread of a deadly disease threatening the entire world, while trying to survive with his family against ever-decreasing odds.

After the tragic events of 9/11 took place, pretty much everyone became focused on the direct cause and the aftermath, and it was quite understandable as the time wasn’t right for a history lesson. However, years after when things began to calm down in the United States many people started digging as deep as possible so as to uncover the whole story behind 9/11, in terms of what actually sparked the chain of events that led to it.

Those of us who know about Scientology content ourselves by referring to it as that crazy religious sect with beliefs so out-of-this-world that it’s not even funny. More prominently, there are a few celebrities, such as Isaac Hayes and Tom Cruise , who have openly embraced the Church of Scientology, which did make a few of us raise our brows in disbelief.