David Thompson received his BA in Special Honors Curriculum and Psychology from Hunter College of CUNY and his Masters in Science Education from New York University. From 1989 to 2016 he was a licensed Chemistry and General Science Teacher in the NYC Board of Education and the Yonkers Department of Education which he joined in 2006 and from which he retired in 2016. He received his elementary and high school education in Barbados, a small island in the eastern Caribbean, at St. Giles Boys School and Combermere High School respectively. In 1981 when he was still an undergraduate, he converted to Islam and became an active member of the Tariqa Burhaniya Sufi Order under the illustrious guidance of the Burhani Sufi masters Sidi Fakhruldeen, his son and inheritor Sidi Ibrahim, and his grandson and inheritor, the current Maulana Shaykh of the Burhaniya Tariqa, Sidi Shaykh Muhammad Ash Shaykh Ibrahim Ash Shaykh Muhammad Usman Abdul Burhani. He took shahada at the hand of his Sufi Teacher, Abdullah Awadallah, who owned the ‘Coco Shaykh’ branded tropical drink entrepreneurship in NYC. The Tenth Lieutenant is his first published book. It was inspired by a chance meeting with the last surviving bodyguard of Malcolm X's security detail which led to serious contemplation and analysis. The result was an opportunity to introduce the general public to the benefits of the ancient science of Sufism outlined in The Tenth Lieutenant.