Publisher's Synopsis
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.
- Fatìma 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.
"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
