Malcolm Cook MacPherson (August 23, 1943 – January 17, 2009) was an American national and foreign correspondent for Newsweek magazine and the author of numerous fiction and nonfiction books.
[1] Attending a high school program during the summer in New Delhi, he had the opportunity to interview Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru, helping trigger an interest in journalism.
The Lucifer Key, published the following year, told the story of a hacker who brings the United States and Soviet Union to the edge of nuclear war after he breaks into the Pentagon computer system.
His 1984 non-fiction book The Blood of His Servants told of the search by Israeli journalist Lieber "Bibi" Krumholz for the man who killed his family during World War II.
[1][2] MacPherson, a resident of Warrenton, Virginia, died of a heart attack at age 65 on January 17, 2009, after collapsing while attending a pre-inauguration party for then-President-elect Barack Obama in Chevy Chase, Maryland.