About as current as they come...

Both my dad and youngest brother spent many hours the last few months with their noses buried in thick books.

I finally realized the significance of the books. Once Dad told me the story of Joel Rosenburg's life and writing I raced to my laptop to research it for myself. Very, very intriguing.

Mortimer Zuckerman, editor-in-chief of U.S. News & World Report writes on Russia's president Vladimir Putin in the February 27th, 2007 issue. Putin's animosity towards the West being of significant concern in and of itself, it is even more interesting that Rosenburg wrote about the rise of a new Russian dictator in his book--last year.

[Joel] is also the founder and president of the Joshua Fund, a nonprofit charitable and educational organization that provides humanitarian relief for victims of war and terrorism in Israel and the Muslim world

The first page of his first novel-The Last Jihad-puts you inside the cockpit of a hijacked jet, coming in on a kamikaze attack into an American city, which leads to a war with Saddam Hussein over weapons of mass destruction. Yet it was written before 9/11, long before the actual war with Iraq....

His second thriller-The Last Days-opens with the death of Yasser Arafat and a U.S. diplomatic convoy ambushed in Gaza. Six days before The Last Days was published in hardcover, a U.S. diplomatic convoy was ambushed in Gaza. Thirteen months later, Yasser Arafat died...

The Ezekiel Option centers on a Russian dictator who forms a military alliance with the leaders of Iran who are feverishly pursuing nuclear weapons and threatening to wipe Israel off the face of the earth. On the very day it was published in June 2005, Iran elected a new leader who vowed to accelerate the country's nuclear program and later vowed to "wipe Israel off the map." Six months after the book was published, Moscow signed a $1 billion arms deal with Tehran. (bio)...

To appreciate Rosenburg's unsurpassed understanding and insight into world events current and future, you'll have to check out his blog and read through the prologues to his books. His latest, Epicenter, is non-fiction answering the questions and explaining what is really going on in the Middle East. As a former aide to Israel's prime minister, he is uniquely stationed to observe events as they unfold.

Joel's books
Last Jihad
Last Days
Ezekiel Option
Copper Scroll
Epicenter