In the world of espionage and terrorism, nothing is ever quite what you expect. It's always worse. Beck Casey , the college-professor-turned-spy protagonist of the bestselling Final Epidemic , returns, now to confront the very real nightmare that that haunts every national security expert today: Nuclear terrorism in the American homeland. Joining him in Fire Of The Prophet is a cast of faces both new and familiar: Jeffrey Connor , a rising star at the FBI's Counter-Terror Division; a natural leader despite his ...
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In the world of espionage and terrorism, nothing is ever quite what you expect. It's always worse. Beck Casey , the college-professor-turned-spy protagonist of the bestselling Final Epidemic , returns, now to confront the very real nightmare that that haunts every national security expert today: Nuclear terrorism in the American homeland. Joining him in Fire Of The Prophet is a cast of faces both new and familiar: Jeffrey Connor , a rising star at the FBI's Counter-Terror Division; a natural leader despite his youth, he's tasked to lead a desperate hunt for an elusive "blue-eyed terrorist." Katie Casey , Beck's daughter and an ambitious D.C. lawyer; she is fiercely loyal, romantically --and unexpectedly-- linked with Connor... and trapped both in a doomed city and in a hackles-raising relationship between father and lover. Fat???ma Huntsman , the daughter of a Palestinian activist and an American woman, now radicalized as a terrorist and armed with a nuclear device in a mission against her fellow American citizens. Dennis Littrell , a self-described "overly seasoned" veteran news journalist, looking for professional redemption through one last story-- a story that might save his nation and the world from a devastating global conflict... or could plunge it irrevocably into one. In suspense-filled progression, Fire Of The Prophet builds from an opening set along the U.S.-Mexican border through the battlefields of the Middle East, and ultimately takes the reader to a looming Armageddon... in the capital of the United States. "Hits you like a freight train, then drags you along for the ride. Earl Merkel's latest is a master's degree in terrific writing, strong characters, and just plain excitement. Don't you dare miss it." --National bestselling author Shane Gericke, Torn Apart "Earl Merkel's new thriller, Fire Of The Prophet, is a frightening and extremely well-crafted narrative of today's domestic-terror nightmare, from the specter of the 'blue-eyed terrorist' to the dark international conspiracies aimed at the heart of America in our world today..." --Bob Hamer, author of The Last Undercover and former FBI undercover agent
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