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| Dead Heat (Political Thrillers Series #5) |
| By: | Joel C. Rosenberg |
| Media: | Book |
| ISBN: | 1414311613 |
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 fabulous thriller President James Macpherson is on his way to Los Angeles to give a speech at the Republican National Convention at the Staples Center. His intelligence team killed a terrorist they have been hunting for years but in his computer they find a map of the Staples Center. They think the terrorists are targeting the president but are confident that they have him protected. The Secret Service is proven wrong when container ships launch scud missiles with nuclear warheads at D.C., Seattle, Manhattan, and Southern California killing the president and many others.
Vice President Oaks is now the president and he and his advisors are in a bunker deep underground. He intends to make the country who launched the bombs pay for killing millions of Americans but he has no idea what country it is. North Korea is prepared to invade the South and could have done it as they had the means. The new president of Iraq who makes Saddam Hussein look like a choir boy hates the Americans and is in league with the U.N. Secretary-General. He is prepared to go to war to prevent the Kurdish providence from succeeding and joining the new Kurdistan. Israel builds the Third Temple to the consternation of other nations. It looks like intelligence is needed to figure out who killed America and since the infrastructure is destroyed, the US must depend on its allies and what little intelligence they have from contact with the field.
Joel C. Rosenberg writes a political thriller based on today's headlines and most of the events in DEAD HEAT could conceivably happen. The action is non stop from the very first page and the politicians and elected officials feel lifelike. It is interesting to see what happens when a first strike hits America and how the country reacts to most of its land made wasted. Mr. Rosenberg is fantastic writer whose chilling and exciting novels make him one of the best thriller authors writing today.
Harriet Klausner
 Outstanding Joel Rosenberg has nailed this one. Far too many Americans think this war with Islamic Fundamentalism is wrong. Well, read this and wake up. Great job and kuddos to Rosenberg.
Editor of terrorism expert Morgan Norval's The Fifteen Century War: Islam's Violent Heritage
 A "Must-Read" for everyone! I have heard Mr. Rosenburg speak several times and have read a few of his books. I picked up "Dead Heat" last night and I am already through 200 pages! It is terrific and terrifying at the same time. This book shows how we are still a target for terrorism. Too many Americans have become complacent since 9/11 and think that all we need is a socially responsible president to elect in '08 rather than keeping in mind that we very much need a president that has their primary focus on our security as a nation. Mr Rosenburg definitely gets his most important message through to the reader (without craming it down their throat)- we all need Christ as our Lord and Savior!
 Another great Rosenberg story I am looking forward to reading Joel Rosenberg's latest thriller. It promises to be as good as Behold, an Ashen Horse, a technothriller with a similar theme. It will be interesting to see how the stories, especially the ending, compare.
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