The Ezekiel Option

I guess I should have read the last sentence of the book description more carefully, but I didn't and got this expecting a true political thriller. It was something of that for a little bit, but then more and more it turned into an interpretation of how end-of-the-world prophetic religious texts might be applied to today's geopolitical scene. Mixed in with an increasingly urgent call to messianic Christianity before the end of the world. If you're looking for a book that gives divine intervention as the final and only option (hence the title of the book) for earth's manmade problems, get this. If not, read something else.

Joel C. Rosenberg is an amazing author; this series is among the best I've read from anyone.......more

The good news is that Joel Rosenberg is writing quality thrillers, with plots which are so plausible that some of the things he has written about have come to pass. A Russian commercial flight, with one of the oligarchs on board, is hijacked and headed to Washington D.C., forcing the President to ma......more

Picking up from where “The Last Days”, left off, “The Ezekiel Option” begins with a hi-jacked Russian airliner that is about to be flown into the U.S. capitol. The airliner is shot down, and this becomes the source of worldwide propaganda against the U.S. At the same time, the Palestinian Prime Mini......more

As a political and spiritual apocalyptic thriller I found this story to be pretty engaging. I don't follow politics and world events as much as I probably should but this book definitely got me wondering if the events portrayed could really come about in the same way. The pacing of the story starts o......more

This was an excellently researched and written piece of fiction that made me feel like it was today’s history based on the prophesies of Ezekiel. I am a secular reader and, at times, was distracted by all the Christian aspects of the novel, but would not hesitate to recommend it to anyone who likes......more