I’ve heard of this Joel Rosenberg, but I need to read some of his books, I think.
There is something kind of spooky about his writing.
His first book, the first page as a matter of a fact, (The Last Jihad) has a hijacked plane coming in for a kamikaze attack into an American city ..thing is it was written 9 month before 9/11. As the story unfolds, an American president is in a war against Saddam Hussein over weapons of mass destruction...that happen in the book, 5 months before the war in Iraq began.
In his second book, (The Last Days) the story opens with an attack on a US diplomatic convoy heading into Gaza, the death of Arafat, and radical Islam trying to take over the West Bank. Two weeks before it was published, a US Diplomatic convoy was attacked in Gaza..about a year after it was published Arafat died and Hamas seized control of the West Bank and Gaza.
In his third novel, The Ezekiel Option, a dictator rises to power in Russia, an Iranian leader vows to annihilate Israel, and Russia and Iran form a military alliance. On the day the novel came out Iran elected a new president that vowed to accelerate his countries nuclear program..four months after that he vowed to "wipe Israel off the map" and two months after that Russia agreed to sell $1 billion worth of fighter jets to Iran.
The fourth novel The Copper Scroll spoke of rebuilding the Temple in Jerusalem, and finding the treasures of the Temple including the Arc of the Covenant. As you may know there have been numerous articles on archaeological finds from the Temple as well as talk of Rebuilding the Temple.
His newest novel Dead Heat just came out, and to be honest I;m not sure I want to know what this one is going to be like.