James Lafond

Fruit of The Deceiver James Lafond

From October 1200 until August 1201, the worst famine in Egyptian history starved the nation beyond the bounds of humanity. For months the children of this ancient land were devoured by adults. When children became scarce, rich and poor alike turned their knives on the elderly, the fat, and the slow. One man, the travelling physician Abd al-Latif, was practicing medicine at the epicenter of this cannibal holocaust and left us an account of one of mankind's darkest times. Fruit of The Deceiver is his story.