A Form of Godliness
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- €7.49
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- €7.49
Publisher Description
Experience the Nightmare of a Perfect World
Welcome to America: where every school child is completely healthy; where an all-embracing church speaks only of unconditional love and acceptance; where diseases once thought beyond reach have been conquered; and where those who have lost loved ones receive soothing messages of hope.
Yet beneath the surface of this seeming utopia lies a horrifying darkness.
In a world long since reshaped in the wake of 9/11, Matthew Bridger, president of the United States, Bryson Lawe, a Secret Service agent, and Karen Foley, a Christian activist must face the atrocity the American dream has become. Life has lost its value, deception is epidemic, and in a nation of more than three million square miles, there is no room for God.
As a Russian oil embargo jeopardizes American petroleum reserves, a massive terrorist strike forces the United States to withdraw its support of Israel. Finally given their long-awaited opening, enemies of the Jewish state attack, igniting a war that threatens to sweep the globe. Amid the escalating chaos, Bridger, Lawe and Foley race to uncover the truths that will secure their survival–and that of America itself.
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Appearing in a charged election year, this apocalyptic thriller dedicated to President Bush and those killed in the 9/11 attacks delivers a strong Republican, Zionist message. Life Quality, an organization that offers parents of handicapped babies a chance to turn them (and their organs) in for cash, will seemingly stop at nothing to acquire body parts. In another story line, Randall Sullivan finds he is able to talk with the spirits of the dead, including his deceased teenage daughter, which earns him celebrity status but becomes more than he bargained for. The novel ends as nuclear warfare chars the world, Israel fulfills biblical prophecy and Christians disappear from the earth. Johnson (Ice) is a talented writer who juggles many characters with aplomb, but his talents falter under his didacticism. Environmentalists of faith will be offended by his disparaging comments about those who oppose drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and other readers may be troubled by the idea that the U.S. must offer allegiance to Israel no matter what. The token insertion of a likable Muslim couple isn't enough to counter the stereotypical Middle Eastern characters. Storytelling takes second place here to dogma.
