The Last Jihad: The Last Jihad, Book 1

Rosenberg has captured a realistic look at that tomorrow when all this comes to fruition and Christ returns! read it

The book really does start out with a bang - a terrorist attempts to take out the Presidential motorcade in a Gulf Stream IV private plane, and it is heart racing action and suspense from there. My wife and I started out reading Rosenberg's "Epicenter 2.0" and while we were part-way through it the rumblings in the Middle East got louder (uprising & ouster in Tunisia, and Egypt, and as of today, Civil war in Libya, protests in Syria, Jordan, Bahrain, and Yemen).Epicenter was very compelling non-fiction, so we thought we'd get Rosenberg's fiction books and start from the beginning. It's been a great read! Highly recommended if you like political thrillers and/or if what is going on in the Middle East is interesting to you.Update 6/3/2011:There are some parts in the middle where it slows down quite a bit. But, then something exciting will happen, and it will pick back up again!There are some intense actions sequences in the 2nd half of the book as well. And there are at least two good plot twists regarding who was involved in the attempted Presidential assassination.I do agree with some of the other reviewers on at least two things: first, the character development (and sometimes the dialogue as well) are thin. This is Rosenberg's first novel, so I think some slack can be cut there. I am planning on reading the rest of them.The other thing is that the political viewpoint of Rosenberg is very obvious. I personally am of the same political stripe as Rosenberg, so my gripe isn't that I disagree with him. But it does come off clumsily sometimes. SPOILER ALERT: Like the attack under the glass dome, it is an evil event. But Rosenberg is overly obvious to directly say 'there's an evil presence at work' (parapharse). He could describe how it feels, or have the darkness be a part of the characters dialogue (just off the top of my head, and I'm not a writer) and I think it feel a little less forced.Criticism's aside, it is a fun, thrilling, action-packed read. I loved it! I can't wait to read the other books in the series and see how Rosenberg's writing develops. The subject matter is also very fascinating and relevant to real-world events going on right now in the Middle East, despite the fact that this book is fiction, and was written in 2001 when Saddam Hussein still existed.

You need to preorder his new Book coming out September 7, 2021. It will be great I'm sure because I have everyone of his books he has ever written and you won't be sorry, only if you don't. This book told about 911 before it happened. It was to be released on September 11th, but the publishers had to hold it back because it told what would happen on September 11th. And w all know and remember September 11th. He has his own web page that is a must read also, because it is the real news and what is going on. He has access to International Heads of State as well he has seen many of our Presidents. He is great and must have for his books both the serial stories and his independent books he writes about what is happening. Be sure and get his books past and present and up coming one. You'll be surprise on one of his past books because he fore told about what was going to happen to an Famous International Head of State and did happen. He is definetely a must have writer of His books/book. You won't be sorry/only if you don't get his book(s).

In this book - the first of five - in the Last Jihad series, Joel Rosenberg writes a fast moving and gripping political thriller. In a televised interview the author says that his goal in writing is “for the reader to not be able to put the book down - and stay up until the wee hours of the night until the book is finished.”I didn’t stay up all night reading this particular book (I’ve only done that three times in my life: Reading John Grisham’s The Firm; R.C. Sproul’s The Holiness of God; and Randall Arthur’s Wisdom Hunter). However, if I didn’t have to go to work in the morning I probably would have, and could have read the book all the way through without a break.The narrative involves an assignation on the POTUS; a wall street multi-millionaire; Iraq, Iran, Israel, and various characters from the C.I.A., the President’s cabinet, a billion dollar corporation, and various other interesting characters like Saddam Husein.What I like most about Rosenberg’s book is how he ties together contemporary events, people, and geo-political realities and tells a feasible and realistic thriller. He is an excellent story-teller and weaves in some good insight and wisdom along the way. I highly recommend this book and look forward to reading the next four books in the Last Jihad series.

Only discovered this author about six months ago.....what a find ! A recent visit to the Holy land reinforced my interest in the region and it's politics [and it's many problems] so....to read about the sort of things that "could be" really took hold of my imagination ! Thank goodness it's fiction. If you like "a gripping read" I highly recommend it. In another review I commented on "The Last Days" and said that I intended to get hold of his other Middle East novels, well, I've ordered them [thro Amazon, of course].

I have read all the books by this author and each one is really good. Each is different but also each is page-turning excitement and believable even tho it is fiction. Great author

As with all Joel Rosenberg novels it grips you from the start . It covers plots against the West by political and religious extremist and could well be taken out of the latest news paper reporting events of today. It has great insight into events of today. Bang upto date.

This was a book well worth the read and very thought provoking. It arrived promptly was well packaged and a recommendation for the discerning reader.

I couldn't put the books in this series down! Especially gripping in the times we find ourselves living, they definitely are our headlines.