Jeremiad (American Jeremiad Book 1) by Tom Brodey

By Tom Brodey

"I've frequently questioned what might occur if the rustic installed position one of these pre-Armageddon executive that evangelicals hold forth approximately and such a lot of americans say they want,” stated Wainwright. “Well, this time they voted for God, weapons, and glory, gigantic time,” he further, stubbing out his cigarette in his plate and glancing throughout at Clay. “So, now we get to discover out."

Clay Hankins can’t withstand the thrill and intrigue of nationwide politics whilst invoice Bowie, the charismatic Senator from Mississippi and Clay’s former roommate, is nominated for President on a platform which gives you to come the United States to its Christian roots. even though first and foremost pushed aside as unelectable via mainstream pundits, the Bowie crusade is reinforced by way of the Senator’s strong populism and a chain of surprising and scary normal mess ups that the nation’s spiritual leaders and televangelists interpret because the starting of the ‘End Times.’ while invoice Bowie pulls off a beautiful landslide victory within the nationwide election, Clay unexpectedly reveals himself and his younger family members drawn into Washington’s strong community of influential C road evangelicals – that's, till Clay starts to achieve that the charismatic President-elect himself has a truly violent and un-Christian mystery in his previous.

Set opposed to a backdrop of transforming into populism, terrorist paranoia, and simmering purple State-Blue country tensions, Jeremiad is a political mystery and homicide secret that unfolds in the course of a tumultuous Presidential election yr – revealing what existence is like while longstanding criminal and cultural obstacles among church and country without warning start to holiday down.

Jeremiad is the 1st novel in Tom Brodey’s American Jeremiad trilogy.

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