Jeremiah Terrorist Prophet

Jeremiah Trilogy #1

by Michael A. Smith

In this first book of a trilogy, Jeremiah is a modern-day terrorist with an agenda — to fracture the United States along its existing racial, religious, economic and political fault lines. Jeremiah claims to be a prophet called by God to denounce the evils of a sinful nation. The terrorist launches murderous attacks against carefully selected targets in an effort to undermine the nation’s legal system, economy and political structure.

Jeremiah makes skillful use of the Internet to preach and proselytize. However, television is the main medium for his message. The unwilling messenger is Laura Delaney, the brainy, beautiful anchor of a popular news magazine show. Jeremiah gives Laura advance notice of his attacks and calls in his rationale during the show. Off the air, he stalks Laura obsessively and irrationally, wanting her love and endorsement.

Jeremiah urges his followers to migrate to the upper Midwest and establish “New America” based on instructions set forth in The Book of Second Jeremiah. He blackmails the federal government by threatening to explode a nuclear bomb stolen from Russia. Spearheading the government effort to capture Jeremiah is FBI agent Steve Wallace, who loves and protects Laura. Can Steve and Laura thwart Jeremiah’s plan, or will the terrorist successfully manipulate deep-seated divisions within the nation?

Genres: Thriller

274 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 1, 1997

About the author

Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.

Michael A. Smith was born in 1942. He earned a baccalaureate degree in history from Kansas Wesleyan University. He attended graduate school at the University of Kansas for two years.
From 1968-73, he worked for several Midwestern newspapers as a reporter, columnist, editor, and editorial writer, specializing in coverage of politics and education.
From 1973-81, he was Associate Director, Illinois Board of Higher Education. Thereafter, he served as Press Secretary to U.S. Congressman Richard Durbin, who later became a U.S. Senator representing Illinois.
From 1984-87, he was Vice President, Public Relations, for the Futures and Options Industry Association, a Washington, D.C. trade association.
During 1992-93, he worked as as a reporter for The Training Times, the newspaper of the Seventh Army Training Command, Grafenwoehr, Germany. Among other subjects, he wrote about the plight of refugees from the Balkan wars.
Since then, he has pursued creative writing, having published to date eight novels and a book of essays. He is also working on an illustrated children's story and several screenplays. (Source: Amazon.com)

Reviews

[Barbara Huskey · Rating 4 out of 5]

Pretty good book. I like conspiracy theories, end times, political thrillers. I liked that it left out the sex scenes and didn't dwell on romantic attractions. It was a fast read and I'm definitely interested in reading more.

[carol · Rating 4 out of 5]

Insight

This book was interesting. It gave an insight to ways that people think and what they are willing to do. It is funny how Jeremiah went around killing in the name of the Lord and received such a following. People are people I guess. I suppose all it takes is one person to start the revolution and everyone else who only had the thoughts will come out of the woodworks

[Katy Lovejoy · Rating 1 out of 5]

No no no no no

I was willing to give this a chance or at least the benefit of the doubt that this was like that retelling of the story of Joseph, that thus was Jeremiah from the Bible retold in modern times.

If that is what the author was going for, this is not how you do that

[Christie · Rating 4 out of 5]

While reading this story, all I could think was wow. I really enjoyed this story and how it reminded me of my faith. I agreed with a lot of the rules that Jeremiah professed to be from God. It started making me wonder what a world like New America would be like to live in; a lot less crime and people being safe. There will always be evil that will emerge amongst the human population, but it would be a lot less than before thanks to following certain rules that are not so different from what we already have ingrained in us from the beginning of our lives. Michael Smith wrote the story so well that it almost seemed to be a true story that jumped off the pages.

[Mark · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent and thought-provoking!!