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“This book, conceived in sorrow, composed in grief, and constructed at the brink of despair, contains my mind’s best thoughts, and my soul’s triumph over the powers of darkness.” – Isaac Mayer Wise

The Final Jihad by Martin Keating

A Nightmare of Terrorist Attacks – 5 stars

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A number of inventive, deadly, and frightening terrorist attacks are launched across the country within days of each other, each one with a different type of target, but all with the same deadly results. An airliner exploded, a night club destroyed by a car bomb, a large shopping mall attacked from multiple directions and many more, each claiming new victims. Among the victims are Jack Stroud’s wife and son on a flight that he had been minutes from boarding. As a former naval intelligence officer and a specialist in counter terrorism, Stroud teams with the FBI to find the source of these attacks and the next targets. Who is coordinating these attacks? Who is funding them? And what or who is their ultimate target?

It is hoped that none of the current crop of terrorist organizations gets a copy of this book to use it as a catalog of new ideas.

At the heart of this book is a mystery as Stroud uses his contacts, experience, and knowledge of terrorism to track down the people responsible for his wife and son’s deaths. His single-mindedness of purpose almost costs him his daughter, Rachel, as the conspirators use her to curtail her father’s investigation.

Several subplots help to build the mystery including a crusading evangelist who happens to be brother-in-law to Stroud, a curious old farmer whose curiosity helps fit an important new piece of the puzzle, and an obscure flight school and its student pilots.

Readers who like a challenging mystery to help solve along with the characters will find this one has plenty of clues and twists as new information flows freely to feed the investigators from all sorts of sources.

Recommended. Except to potential terrorists. Move along, nothing to see here.

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