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Prayers for the Assassin (Assassin Trilogy #1)

by Robert Ferrigno (Goodreads Author)

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SEATTLE, 2040. The Space Needle lies crumpled. Veiled women hurry through the busy streets. Alcohol is outlawed, replaced by Jihad Cola, and mosques dot the skyline. New York and Washington, D.C., are nuclear wastelands. Phoenix is abandoned, Chicago the site of a civil war battle. At the edges of the empire, Islamic and Christian forces fight for control of a very differe...more
SEATTLE, 2040. The Space Needle lies crumpled. Veiled women hurry through the busy streets. Alcohol is outlawed, replaced by Jihad Cola, and mosques dot the skyline. New York and Washington, D.C., are nuclear wastelands. Phoenix is abandoned, Chicago the site of a civil war battle. At the edges of the empire, Islamic and Christian forces fight for control of a very different United States.

Enormous in scope and brilliantly imagined, Prayers for the Assassin promises to be the powerhouse read of the year. Burning with cinematic violence, fiendish betrayal, and global intrigue, Robert Ferrigno's sensational thriller asks: What would happen to America if the terrorists won?

After simultaneous suitcase-nuke attacks destroy New York, Washington, D.C., and Mecca -- attacks blamed on Israel -- a civil war breaks out. An uneasy truce leaves the nation divided between an Islamic republic with its capital in Seattle, and the Christian Bible Belt in the old South. In this frightening future there are still Super Bowls and Academy Awards, but calls to Muslim prayer echo in the streets and terror is everywhere. Freedom is controlled by the state, paranoia rules, and rebels plot to regain free will...

One of the most courageous is the beautiful young historian Sarah Dougan, who uncovers shocking evidence that the nuclear attacks might not have been planned by Israel, evidence that, if true, will destabilize the nation. When Sarah suddenly goes missing, the security chief of the Islamic republic calls upon Rakkim Epps, her secret lover and a former elite warrior, to find her -- no matter what the risk.

But as Rakkim searches for Sarah, he is tracked by Darwin, a brilliant psychopathic killer trained in the same secretive unit as Rakkim. To survive, Rakkim must become Darwin's assassin -- a most forbidding challenge. A bloody, nerve-racking chase takes them through the looking-glass world of the Islamic States of America, and culminates dramatically as Rakkim and Sarah battle to expose the truth to the entire world.

Can the couple outrun Darwin? Who is really behind the nuke attacks? Will Sarah and Rakkim stay alive long enough to deliver the truth? Does a nation divided have a prayer?

Robert Ferrigno's Prayers for the Assassin shows the novelist at the height of his powers, and delivers a masterful, unforgettable read.

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Published October 31st 2006 by Pocket Books (first published January 1st 2006)

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Apr 06, 2013 BirdBrian's ghost rated it 1 of 5 stars

Abandoned on page 100.

I don't really want to review the book as a story, but more like the book as a piece of our recent history, because that's what I was reading it for. First, let me build up some context...

Do you ever look back on the past ten years or so, and wonder how Americans allowed so many of our freedoms to be trampled on? It happened so fast, didn’t it?

We used to have due process in this country, but now it's accepted that you can be detained indefinitely as a terrorist, on suspic...more

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Nov 16, 2011 KarenC rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Recommended to KarenC by: series

Shelves: better_than_tv, bookmarks, conspiracy_theories, politics, spies, suspense

Introduction to central characters, locations, politics and social conditions that will carry the reader through the three volumes of the Assassin Trilogy. Ferrigno does a decent job introducing the characters, describing the social conditions and setting up the rest of this futuristic trilogy. We get glimpses of the decay befalling the Islamic Republic, as well as the dramatically changed religious, political and social landscapes. Is this really what the U.S. might look like by 2040? A little...more

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Nov 24, 2010 Ori rated it 3 of 5 stars

This book has a lot going for it. The fight scenes in this are peerless. I was taken back to the olden days when I used to read and then reread R.A. Salvatore books featuring Drizzt Do'Urden. In fact, I'm not 100% certain that Rakim Epps isn't really Drizzt (more on that later).

Also, though it's a bit odd, I learned a fair amount about the Muslim religion and traditional observances. It's a stew of modern and fundamentalist practices and really makes me feel like I should find an actual book abo...more This book has a lot going for it. The fight scenes in this are peerless. I was taken back to the olden days when I used to read and then reread R.A. Salvatore books featuring Drizzt Do'Urden. In fact, I'm not 100% certain that Rakim Epps isn't really Drizzt (more on that later).

Also, though it's a bit odd, I learned a fair amount about the Muslim religion and traditional observances. It's a stew of modern and fundamentalist practices and really makes me feel like I should find an actual book about it, rather than a suspense-thriller, or wikipedia. Any suggestions?

Before you can read this book you must first suspend your disbelief. If you even read the back cover then you'll know it's necessary, and I read mostly fantasy, sci-fi, and educational theory so I'm used to it. Even so, I had a lot of difficulty. It took me till about 1/3 of the way through before I felt like Ferrigno had been able to create a world I could believe in, at least enough to enjoy the book.

Otherwise two glaring flaws prevent me from giving this book more than 3 stars. First, Ferrigno delivers characters background stories by forcing the main character to have long "remember when" conversations with each character. Really, I'm not sure how one goes about fleshing out a character's past without it feeling awkward. However, I think in mysteries such as this one a lot of that background is really unnecessary. The main character is a "shadow warrior," I'd almost prefer for his past to be a little more murky.

The second flaw draws me back to Drizzt Do'Urden. Rakim Epps' nemesis is another Feyadeen, this one an assassin. He's a pretty great character, and nearly Epps' opposite. A great Artemis Entreri character. But does their rivalry live up to that example? Sadly, no.

This book was a command performance. I gave another friend The Name of the Wind, and he gave me this. This was an entertaining read, and while I don't feel compelled to read any more of this series, if I were at an airport and need something, I'd certainly return to Ferrigno's series, at least if I couldn't find another book promising the death of Nazis and treasure.(less)

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Dec 22, 2009 Mike (the Paladin) rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This book is built around an interesting idea I'd seen and heard discussed (or varations of it) in other places, especially after 9/11. The general idea is that after a confessed Israeli agents have attacked the US a new civil war broke out. An Islamic movement or backlash agains Isral (and by extention Jews) brought it about. Many Americans in the coastal areas and some of the midwest coberted to Islam. Open war broke out with heavy destruction and loss of life. Evangelical Christians have larg...more This book is built around an interesting idea I'd seen and heard discussed (or varations of it) in other places, especially after 9/11. The general idea is that after a confessed Israeli agents have attacked the US a new civil war broke out. An Islamic movement or backlash agains Isral (and by extention Jews) brought it about. Many Americans in the coastal areas and some of the midwest coberted to Islam. Open war broke out with heavy destruction and loss of life. Evangelical Christians have largely moved to the south where they have set up their own republic. Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virgina, and Missouri are border states. Nevada has been allowed to become a sort of autonomous state (think Casablanca without the Nazis as T.L. Jones said in Men in Black)while Utah, Colorado, and Idaho are Mormon States, but the book isn't clear as to whether it's independent or a part of the Islamic state that is allowed to exist.

The book opens during a battle of the "Civil War" and then flashes forward to the "post war". The story is told through the eyes of Rakkim Epps, an elite Fedayeen fighter of the Islamic state who has lost his faith. He has to make a decision in the book as the plot revolved around his attempt to rescue Sarah Dougan a young female historian he loves. For some reason the "State" and another shadowy Islamic power want her dead.

I like the book, but I found it unsatisfying in several ways. For one thing this is a novel and while a lot of the ambivalence we see here realy is "the" or "a" core in lfe, it doesn't have to be in fiction.

I'm sort of stumbling over myself here not to put in spoilers but, I suppose I'll just say, there are places things could have been tied up in a more "literary" or "fictional" or "novel" type way. So the good news is some of you will REALLY disagree with me on that. To some all that I find a sort of disapointment will simply be the book being "true to realism" so...the book is pretty good to very good depending on your point of view. The writing itself is good serviceable writing with character and world building that remains true to itself on the whole and is easy to follw. The plot holds together despit some holes and a few glaring problems that we have to just sort pretend we didn't notice too much (like what's going on with the Mormons etc.).

On the the whole the book could have been some better, but I liked it well enough.(less)

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Dec 03, 2012 Zeke Chase rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: thriller

Rating: 6.1 / 10

This book is predominantly marketed as speculative fiction, and in that sense, it's...not the best. The premise, or at least the catalyst in the novel, is just a little too absurd to be taken seriously by anyone not in a neoconservative thinktank. However, it's written much in the style of a thriller, and despite the that it's futuristic, really just boils down to a spy thriller within a fictional near future. And as a thriller, it's actually pretty good.

The year is 2040 and the...more Rating: 6.1 / 10

This book is predominantly marketed as speculative fiction, and in that sense, it's...not the best. The premise, or at least the catalyst in the novel, is just a little too absurd to be taken seriously by anyone not in a neoconservative thinktank. However, it's written much in the style of a thriller, and despite the that it's futuristic, really just boils down to a spy thriller within a fictional near future. And as a thriller, it's actually pretty good.

The year is 2040 and the United States is divided into four political entities: 1) the Mormon territories (henceforth unimportant to the novel or this review), 2) the Bible Belt, a Protestant holdout against Muslim hegemony whose politics remain arcane to us, 3) the Islamic States of America, a predominantly Muslim yet “free” country in the north and west whose Christian minority is mostly Catholic, and 4) the Nevada Free State, a secessionist independent where Las Vegas has become the central hub of North America. The book focuses on the ISA. Rakkim Epps is a former Fedayeen (basically military special ops) shadow warrior (basically sleeper cell agent) in love with the niece of the head of State Security (who's one of the top most powerful men in the country; picture Secretary of Defence). The niece, Sarah, goes missing and Rakkim comes out of retirement to track her down. Sarah, who wrote a controversial book about the rise of Islam in America, has stumbled across a bin Laden-esque plot by a Muslim mastermind known as “The Old One” which began decades ago and with only slight hiccoughs has succeeded in a knew Holocaust and steadily built a global caliphate as prophesied in Muslim eschatology. The Old One, desperate to keep his web of lies secret, dispatches Darwin, a former assassin of the Fedayeen, after Rakkim and Sarah.

What led to this? Well, in 2015, nukes took out New York, Washington and left Mecca as a radioactive waste. The story was that fundamentalists were attacking the good old US of A and their Saudi puppets. Then, the FBI gets a confession from Richard Aaron Goldberg, an Israeli Mossad agent who orchestrated the whole thing to make it look like fundamentalists were attacking the US and the Saudis. A coalition of Arab states and a demographically Muslim majority Europe invaded Israel, the US, now involved in all out civil war between the Protestant holdouts and the moral clarity of a rising Islam in the wake of New York and Washington, pull their foreign aid for Israel and the Jews are nearly erased from history altogether until Russia gives the last of them sanctuary. China, the world's new superpower, remains neutral.

So why is this absurd in the thriller sense? Well, does anyone believe that Congress – much less the American public – would turn against Israel when it's made to look like Muslim radicals? Even in the face of a confession? That confession would never have made it onto the six o'clock news.

But that's minor nitpicking. As I say, most spy or political thrillers thrive on absurd geopolitics, and, at least within the continuity of its own fictional universe, it works. The characters are believable, the layers of ISA society are plausible, the scope of geopolitics is all-encompassing. And the story is rather enjoyable along the way, although at times it seems like the characters are just going through the motions. There are points where it seems like Ferrigno knows where he wants the story to go, but hits a brick wall and just...goes there anyway. Perhaps I zoned out, but I don't understand why the Old One let Rakkim and Sarah go (even though they did have to orchestrate some half-assed escape). Things do fit rather neatly together in the end, although I'm glad Darwin didn't turn out to be a mindless vassal of the Old One; that is, he remains true to his character.

As always, I must give further props to any book that has a scene random gratuitous anal sex.

This is a decent book, when viewed as a thriller, though that may only be in contrast to its piteous competition. I will continue with the series, because now I'm curious to continue within this brave new world.(less)

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Jul 05, 2010 Bob rated it 4 of 5 stars

This was an interesting “what if” type of book. Nuclear bombs have gone off in New York City, Chicago and Washington as well as in Mecca. Soon it seems that they were set by Israel and as a results Islam has now taken over the bulk of the US and Europe with a pocket of Christians in the bible belt and Nevada and Utah being a separate enclave that’s is relatively open. The principal characters are Sarah Dougan a historian and author of a book that has angered the Islamic government , epically the...more

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Mar 20, 2013 Sara rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: book-club-sf-fantasy, science-fiction, alternate-history

I listened to this book on audio. It was a book club selection and for some reason, I didn't think I'd like it. After finishing, I'd say that I found it compelling in a suspenseful way, but it wasn't something I'd choose for myself.

The premise of the story (which initiates a trilogy) is that after a series of attacks and civil wars, America splits into two countries with serious religious and cultural differences. Most of the country converts to Islam, while the South becomes a Christian strong...more

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Feb 05, 2009 Bookmarks Magazine added it · review of another edition

Prayers marks a departure for Ferrigno, whose previous books focused on life in contemporary Southern California. In Ferrigno's neo-Orwellian world, Mount Rushmore has disappeared, LAX has become Bin Laden International, and midday prayers interrupt the Super Bowl. Critics expressed different ideas about the plot, using words such as "preposterous," "credible," and even "ordinary" to describe it. There's no doubt, however, that Ferrigno raises important questions about religious freedom while ha

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Oct 07, 2009 Ron rated it 5 of 5 stars

A very interesting book. One you won't want to put down until you find out what happens. NO peeking at the rear end first! This is the first of a trilogy.

This book sheds a lot of light on the Islamic mentality, factions within Islam and customs. It is a bit of a sci-fi'er as it is set about 30 years into the future when America has become the Islamic Republic and is split into several different areas.

The main character is a Fedayeen Shadow Warrior who goes toe to toe with many killers and a Fed...more

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Apr 19, 2012 Robert rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: action

This is a very novel approach to a "what if" book. A future look at a world turned upside down. A story of an America that is split in half by a future war that has caused worldwide shifts. I found this to be very entertaining and fast read. The author really pulls the reader along as the main character and his future wife attempt to find the real cause behind the war that has ripped everything apart. Salted with new gadgets and talk of the "old" gadgets of our world makes this a very entertaini...more

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Jun 09, 2010 Cherie rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: political-thriller

This book gives the reader a look at what the United States would be like after a Civil War between Conservative Christians and Muslim Americans.
It is set in the year 2040, 15 years after an armistice ended that war and divided the United States into the Muslim States of America and the Bible Belt. It was especially interesting to note that Nevada was a free state not aligned with either side, and Utah and Southern Idaho were designated as "The Mormon Territories." Not much was said about The Mo...more

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Feb 22, 2008 Michael rated it 2 of 5 stars

The premise of this novel - Muslims and Christian fundamentalists fight over a divided future America - was actually the best part. The rest was pretty terrible and so I abandoned this one early on. I wonder if it's the nature of thrillers to be awful.

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Jan 18, 2009 Quinn rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: action

The United States is in chaos. The Pacific United States is now under Muslim control. The southeast United States is Christian. Years earlier several atomic bombs were detonated in three key cities. The Christians being blamed for the attacks. Now several muslim factions are wrestling for power. The “Old One” controlling one, Redbeard controlling another, Ibn Azziz trying to gain control. Rakkim is an assassin and he must find out what happened and why the atomic bomb attacks occurred. Rakkim di...more

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May 05, 2013 JR rated it 4 of 5 stars

At certain points in the novel, I had to step back from my enjoyment and take measure of the completely un-politically correct things I was reading.

Fifty years from now, the former United States is the Islamic States of America after nuclear bombs planted by rogue "Zionists" destroy New York and Washington, DC, and a dirty bomb makes Mecca uninhabitable for the next thousand years.

Seeking certainty in the face of two million dead, the country turns to the surety of Islam.

I'd never heard of the...more

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Feb 23, 2012 Rick rated it 5 of 5 stars

Robert Ferrigno's Prayers for the Assassin is set in a post-apocalyptic, mid-21st century America. An Islamic republic has its capital in Seattle, -- Washington, D.C. was destroyed in a terrorist attack -- fundamentalists vie to seize power, and former Fedayeen Rakkim Epps must find and rescue Sarah, the niece of the head of state security and the woman he loves. Sarah has discovered a secret that could bring down the country and someone is out to kill her to keep that secret.

Richly imagined, wi...more

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Jan 14, 2011 Seth rated it 3 of 5 stars

The premise on this was fairly interesting--the U.S. has had a Civil War and is now an Islamic nation with a "Bible belt" contingent that is separate from the rest of the country. That premise kept things interesting for the first chunk of the book, then things bogged down a little bit. He didn't keep developing the characters at the same pace, and it became a little confusing trying to figure out all the factions. It ended well, though the epilogue seemed a little hasty, and I'm eager to see if...more

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Mar 04, 2011 Ben rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I found this book strongly recommended on a list of top 100 sci-fi books. It is pretty far from normal sci-fi, and is better described as fiction. It reads like a Jason Bourne movie with deep characters and a haunting view on the potential reality of a strong muslim presence and Sharia Law fractioning the US. The book started slow but ended up packing the punch and excitement of a freight train. One of my favorites of the year. The audiobook was brilliantly read and the narrator is one of my new...more

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Dec 01, 2009 Ashley rated it 1 of 5 stars

Shelves: horrible-books, adult-fiction

I wanted to really like this book, because it was recommneded by a friend. I just couldn't. It was a short novel, but it took nearly two months to read. Here is my review:
The novel begins with an interesting premise. I found the "muslim" America very intriguing. I think Ferrigno did a good job of laying out the landscape. The map at the beginning was very useful. I found some of the action scenes interesting and creative.
Although this novel is creative with the premise, it is horribly written....more

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Mar 20, 2011 Schnaucl rated it 4 of 5 stars

Recommended to Schnaucl by: Seattle Times article

Shelves: fiction, library, march, read_2011, series

Three and a half stars.

It's an interesting premise but I'm not sure I understand the demographics. I'm pretty sure the new capital in Seattle only because the author apparently lives there.

We're the least churched area in the country and we don't have a particularly strong Islamic population (or Catholic population for that matter, which is the other big population in the book).

Otherwise it's a pretty interesting book. Although I find it interesting that the guys seem to think things are most...more

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Jun 18, 2009 Adrienne rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: book-count-08

In 2015, three nuclear devices simlutaneously detonate in New York, Washington DC and Mecca. Mecca becomes uninhabitable for 10,000 years, while NYC and Washington are completely destroyed. When these attacks are blamed on an Israeli group, civil war engulfs the United States. The country splinters: the old Confederacy becomes the Bible Belt; Utah, parts of Idaho, Wyoming and Colorado become the Mormon Territory; and the rest of the country becomes the Islamic Republic, with a new capital in Sea...more In 2015, three nuclear devices simlutaneously detonate in New York, Washington DC and Mecca. Mecca becomes uninhabitable for 10,000 years, while NYC and Washington are completely destroyed. When these attacks are blamed on an Israeli group, civil war engulfs the United States. The country splinters: the old Confederacy becomes the Bible Belt; Utah, parts of Idaho, Wyoming and Colorado become the Mormon Territory; and the rest of the country becomes the Islamic Republic, with a new capital in Seattle. Islam is the state religion and the Shari’a the law of the land. Catholics are barely tolerated and Protestants are nonexistent - they’ve all either converted, fled to the Bible Belt, or been killed. Halftime of the Super Bowl is marked with calls to prayer, the Academy Awards are full of actors proclaiming their faith as Muslims, and alcohol is completely forbidden, as is Coca-Cola (the recipe is held by the heretics in the Bible Belt, and being caught in possession of a Coke is a criminal offence) which has been replaced by a new drink, Jihad Cola.

The above scenario and its consequences are explored in Prayers for the Assassin, by Robert Ferrigno. I posted awhile back about my fascination with alternate histories. While this book takes place in the future, it really has that alternate history feel to it. It was a fascinating book. One of the most interesting parts (to me anyway) was the fact that Seattle was the new capital of the Islamic Republic. The Space Needle is destroyed and a museum to the martyred Muslims killed in the civil war lies beneath the ruins, the President’s palace is situated on Queen Anne hill, and a Dick’s Drive-In has mysteriously appeared a block away from Aurora Avenue (they’re all open 24 hours now, too). All of these little touches made the book seem very real. On the other hand, I don’t think that the events in the book could ever occur. At least, not the way that Ferrigno has spelled them out.

Some people might not like the way that Ferrigno has portrayed Muslims in the book, but I thought he did a good job. Sure, there were some Muslim characters that I didn’t like, but they weren’t supposed to be likeable. There were some Catholic characters in the book that I didn’t really like either. And there was one devout Muslim lady that I liked a lot. I was really sad when she was killed.

All in all, I thought that Prayers for the Assassin was a fascinating (and kinda creepy) novel of an alternate future. I might even check out the sequel at some point.(less)

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Oct 11, 2008 Stephen Kennedy rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: ebook, fiction

Although this book had some bad reviews on the Sony book store. I purchased it anyway as I heard the author on a radio talk show promoting the second book of this series and I was intrigued about the premise.

The time is in the future and the US is now an Islamic state. Muslims and Catholics live together but the Southern US Bible belt and the Muslim states are in a state of constant war.

We follow the story of Rakkim (a former Fedayeen spy) after he is tasked to find the daughter of the former he...more

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May 27, 2008 CJ rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: fiction

Action adventure with some nice twists. It's several decades in the future, a couple suitcase nukes went off in D.C. and New York and the Mossad got blamed. The United States has split into an Islamic Republic and the Bible belt in a bloody civil war. To the south, the Aztlan empire has laid claim to Texas and Florida and some of southern California. To the north, Canada is trying to get its hands on some of the great lakes states.

Toss into this mix a Fedayeen shadow warriar (elite spy trained...more

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Mar 03, 2008 Kip rated it 3 of 5 stars

Picked up a hardcopy of this at the B&N discount bin a while back. Premise looked interesting... Set in 2040 it's after a major nuclear strike against NYC, DC and Mecca. Blamed on Zionists looking to frame Islamic fundamentalists. The US has split into four areas... Islamic northern half, Mormom Territory, Nevada Free Zone (Vegas, baby) and the Southern Bible Belt. Southern Bible Belt was filled with Christians from the Islamic Republic after several high-profile Americans converted to Islam...more

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Sep 07, 2007 Dan rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: sci-fi thrillers

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Here's the essential problem --- the foundation of the story isn't believable. Ferrigno bases his plot on the idea that the world believes that a nuclear attack on New York City, Washington, DC and Mecca in 2015 is the work of Israeli agents. As a result, most of the USA converts to Islam, with a group of the southern states breaking away to form a Christian nation.

It doesn't ring true. A novelist, particularly someone writing speculative fiction, asks his readers to suspend disbelief, but he h...more

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Jun 28, 2009 Mike Vaughnwilliams rated it 4 of 5 stars

An interesting concept -- a look into the near future that, to some,would be your worst nightmare: The US as an islamic state, many of our cherished freedoms and materialistic excess a thing of the past and not too fondly remembered. The author pulls off this strange turn of events fairly well, while inviting us into this culture that is not as monolithic as we like to think. The plot includes stealth killers and secrets that will shake this new nation to its foundations.

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Nov 03, 2009 Lynn rated it 5 of 5 stars

Don't let the title fool you. This series of books is a great look into what the future of the US might have looked like if we had taken a different road after 9/11. The insight into our "new life" is thought provoking and makes you wonder what it all could have been like. The author is also from Kirkland and the series is set in Seattle. It's great to actually read a book and know what the highways and landmarks are!

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Dec 30, 2009 Maria is currently reading it

Mid-way into the book and it's making me more and more angry with the concept of Shariah that dimwits seem to think should be the way of life for all of us. This is the first of the trilogy from Ferrigno and is set mainly in Seattle of 2040.
A very different Seattle and a very different USA.
The scenario set as fiction might very by Ferrigno, might soon become a reality.

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Jun 08, 2013 Terry Maggert rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: speculative-fiction

Brilliant portrayal of an American nation divided by a religious war. Ferrigno creates a series of absolutely memorable characters (Rakkim Epps in particular) who all evolve beautifully in this tightly written commentary on where we, as a nation, may find ourselves.
Highest recommendation.

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Jul 06, 2009 Bryan Reed rated it 4 of 5 stars

Though the premise is rather implausible, it's quite a fun read. In some ways reminiscent of The Yiddish Policemen's Union, but more of a thriller than a detective story.

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Mar 07, 2013 Nick Sotos rated it 5 of 5 stars

This is the start of one of my favorite Trilogies of all time. The Assassin Triology had me hooked from the start. Very well thought out premise in regards to feasibility. I have recommended this book to several friends and they all have enjoyed it.

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Robert Ferrigno is an American author of crime novels and of speculative fiction. I've written twelve novels in the last twenty years, most crime thrillers. Sins of the Assassin was a finalist for the Edgar, Best Novel, by the Mystery Writers of America in 2008, and my comic short story, "Can I Help You Out?" won the Silver Dagger, Best Short Story, by the Mystery Association of Great Britain.

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