His Conservative Connections Help to Put Novelist on Best-Seller List

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Personal note: he is a convert from judaism to the religious right form of christianity. He worked for Netenyahu and Nathan Shuransky. Also note that dropping the bomb on innocent Iraqi civilians is considered a holy act.

His Conservative Connections Help to Put Novelist on Best-Seller List
By DAVID E. ROSENBAUM

Published: November 15, 2003



ASHINGTON, Nov. 13 — This is a Washington success story.

A year ago at this time, Joel C. Rosenberg was a conservative Republican political operative with a deep evangelical faith, three small children, no connections in the Bush White House or the Congressional leadership and no particular prospects for a steady job.

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Just before Thanksgiving last year, his first novel, "The Last Jihad," was published. It begins with a suicide pilot crashing his private plane into the president's motorcade and ends with the president saying a silent prayer as the nuclear bombs he ordered are dropped on Iraq. By December, it was on The New York Times best-seller list, where it stayed for 11 weeks.

Based on those sales, Mr. Rosenberg, 36, received an advance of more than $1 million for a sequel, "The Last Days," which also involves terrorism in the United States and mayhem in the Middle East. It went on sale three weeks ago and is already No. 24 on The Times's expanded best-seller list.

"No one had ever heard of me," Mr. Rosenberg said over lunch the other day. "Now I feel like I'm playing in the major league with the Yankees."

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/15/politics/15TALK.html?ex=1069477200&en=8ed74fb39fdecb99&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE

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1. I love his reviews..

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"The Washington Post review of "The Last Jihad" called the writing "an act of terrorism on the reader's brain."

"Publishers Weekly said of "The Last Days," "The author singularly fails to suspend readers' disbelief."


No wonder Rush and Hannity have this guy on their shows. They practice terrorism on the brain also.