His marriage in tatters and his career ruined by lies, Diplomatic Security Service agent Brian Mullaney is at the end of his rope. Banished to Israel as punishment by his agency, he’s assigned to guard a US ambassador and an insignificant box.
Little does he know that this new job will propel him straight into a crisis of global proportions.
Inside the box is a messianic prophecy about the fate of the world. And a dark enemy known as The Turk and the forces of evil at his command are determined to destroy the box, the prophecy, and the Middle East as we know it. When Ambassador Cleveland gets in the way, his life and his daughter’s life are threatened–and Mullaney must act fast.
Now agents of three ancient empires have launched covert operations to secure nuclear weapons, in direct defiance of the startling peace treaty Israel and its Arab neighbors have signed. And a traitor in the US State Department is leaking critical information to a foreign power. It’s up to Mullaney–still struggling with his own broken future–to protect the
embassy staff, thwart the clandestine conspiracies, and unmask a traitor–before the desert is turned into a radioactive wasteland.
Fans of Joel C. Rosenberg, Steven James, and Ted Dekker will relish the deadly whirlpool of international intrigue and end-times prophecy in Ishmael Covenant–and will eagerly await the rest of this new trilogy.
Ishmael Covenant is what you get when Indiana Jones runs full tilt into Joel C. Rosenberg! This book has the high action, supernatural-artifact elements of an Indiana Jones classic mixed with the eschatology, research, and knowledge of a Rosenberg thriller. It will keep you on the edge of your seats while wanting to whip out your computer and start finding out just exactly what’s real and what’s been fictionalized for the story.
I was surprised at just how much of the history that’s written into this story is real. That really was a gift of the best kind: to find that author Brennan found those spots in history that leave us with questions and asked, “What if …?” to create a realistic, exciting story.
I have to admit, as excited as I was to read this one, it did have it’s slow spots, especially in the first third of the book or so. Thinking about the complex cast of characters and the extensive history that Brennan built into the story, I don’t see how this could have happened any other way; the author had to give you the lay of the land so that you could understand the suspenseful action that took place later in the book; but be prepared to get the backstory in your head before the action takes off.
Because it really does. When the body count starts to mount and the action increases, it doesn’t let off. I really liked that aspect of the story, and I couldn’t put it down.
Unfortunately, I had to – but only because it ended. What a cliffhanger! I can’t wait for the next one to release.
If you like books that will keep you reading at night far past your bedtime, Ishmael Covenant is the book for you.
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Terry Brennan is the award-winning author of The Sacred Cipher, The Brotherhood Conspiracy, and The Aleppo Code, the three books in The Jerusalem Prophecies series. His latest release, Ishmael Covenant is the first in his new series, Empires of Armageddon.
A Pulitzer Prize is one of the many awards Brennan accumulated during his 22-year newspaper career. The Pottstown (PA) Mercury won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing for a two-year series published while he led the team as the newspaper’s Editor.
Starting out as a sportswriter in Philadelphia, Brennan became an editor and publisher for newspapers in Pennsylvania, Illinois, and New York and later moved to the corporate staff of Ingersoll Publications (400 newspapers in the U.S., Ireland and England) as Executive Editor of all U.S. newspaper titles.
In 1996, Brennan transitioned into the nonprofit sector, spending 12 years as VP Operations for The Bowery Mission and six years as Chief Administrative Officer for Care for the Homeless, both in New York City.
Terry and his wife, Andrea, now live in Danbury, CT.
More on Brennan can be found at www.terrybrennanauthor.com. He is also on Facebook (Terry Brennan) and Twitter (@terrbrennan1).
I received a free copy of this book. All opinions are my own.
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