Prayers for the Assassin
What would happen to America if the extremists won? SEATTLE, 2040. The Space Needle lies crumpled. Veiled women hurry through the streets. Alcohol is outlawed, replaced by Jihad Cola, and mosques dot the skyline. New York and Washington, D.C., are nuclear wastelands. At the edges of the empire,...
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What would happen to America if the extremists won? SEATTLE, 2040. The Space Needle lies crumpled. Veiled women hurry through the streets. Alcohol is outlawed, replaced by Jihad Cola, and mosques dot the skyline. New York and Washington, D.C., are nuclear wastelands. At the edges of the empire, Islamic and Christian forces fight for control, and rebels plot to regain free will. Courageous rebel Sarah Dougan is a beautiful historian who uncovers information that will destabilize the nation. When she disappears, the security chief of the Islamic Republic of America calls upon Rakkim Epps, her secret lover and a former elite warrior, to find her. But Rakkim is being tracked by Darwin, a brilliant psychopath. To survive, he must become Darwin's assassin and embark upon a frenetic and bloody chase to find Sarah and helpher expose a shocking truth to the world.
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9781416507680 (141650768X)
Publish date: October 31st 2006
Publisher: Pocket Star Books
Pages no: 458
Edition language: English
Category:
Science Fiction,
Mystery,
Speculative Fiction,
Spy Thriller,
Espionage,
Thriller,
Action,
Dystopia,
Alternate History,
Apocalyptic,
Post Apocalyptic,
Near Future
Series: Assassin Trilogy (#1)
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/522956250
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 t...
I liked it. An enjoyable alternative history (well, future history :-) although not so much for women. Not as well done as Phillip K. Dick's wonderful 1962 The Man in the High Castle. Still, it was intriguing.