Before nine-eleven, there was Jeremiah, a home-grown religious prophet who launched a terrorist campaign designed to create a separatist state within America.
Jeremiah claims he has been called by the Lord to cleanse America of the evil that inhabits it. In Jeremiah Terrorist Prophet, he targets criminals, politicians, and the rich. After each deadly attack, he issues a "jeremiad" to justify his murderous activity and attract recruits. The primary vehicle for his publicity campaign is a popular newsmagazine show hosted by beautiful, brainy Laura Delaney. FBI counterterrorism expert Steve Wallace follows clues dropped by Jeremiah in his public and private conversations with Laura. While a real love affair develops between Steve and Laura, Jeremiah imagines that Laura is infatuated with him. He stalks her, waiting for the right movement to "express" his love. The climax occurs when Jeremiah attempts to smuggle a nuclear weapon into the United States and blackmail the government into letting him create a utopian theocracy in the upper Midwest.
New America chronicles the rise and fall of Jeremiah's terrorist colony established in South Dakota. New America attracts millions of devotees converted to Jeremiah's new theology expressed in the prophet's inspired additions to the Christian Bible. New America forges foreign alliances as it builds a formidable army composed primarily of mercenaries. Jeremiah's forces overrun a U.S. air base and hijack several stealth bombers outfitted with nuclear weapons. The Battle of Kansas City begins the war whereby New America hopes to achieve independence from the United States.
After defeat and decades in exile, the prophet returns in The Inheritors with a new scheme of world domination. He plans to use infected migrating birds to spread a deadly, genetically engineered virus around the world. Only his vaccinated followers will survive the bird flu. Jeremiah forces his reluctant sons into this new campaign. The one son born to Laura Delaney was kidnapped and raised in exile by Jeremiah, while Laura and Steve raised the terrorist's other son. One of these eighteen-year-olds takes it upon himself to save the world from a biological apocalypse.
Read the Jeremiah trilogy for high-octane suspense and action. Then, ask yourself whether it is possible in America, and you may be surprised at your own answer.
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