The Kremlin Conspiracy by Joel Rosenberg

Book description:


New York Times bestselling author Joel C. Rosenberg returns with a high-stakes political thriller set in Russia.

Everything he learned to protect the president, he must use to take out theirs.

With an American president distracted by growing tensions in North Korea and Iran, an ominous new threat is emerging in Moscow. A czar is rising in the Kremlin, a Russian president feverishly consolidating power, silencing his opposition, and plotting a brazen and lightning-fast military strike that could rupture the NATO alliance and bring Washington and Moscow to the brink of nuclear war. But in his blind spot is the former U.S. Secret Service agent, Marcus Ryker, trained to protect but ready to kill to save his country

My review:

Joel Rosenberg is an amazing author, and I have enjoyed every one of his books I have read. He usually writes books that center on Israel, but this one was about Russia.... and no less of a great story than his normal fare.

  Rosenberg came up with a great main character in Marcus Ryker, and wove a great story around him and the Russian characters he created. He was a very likable character, and it gave a fascinating look into the life of a Secret Service agent.  As with his other books, there are some pretty scary scenarios in the book that you hope never happen, but know they very well could happen.

 I learned a lot by reading this book. I learned about Russian-American relations, relations Russia has with countries near it, and about Russian government. That isn't to say the book is boring or hard to get into. It is not. It is extremely interesting with a lot of intrigue and suspense that made me want to keep reading instead of laying the book down when I needed to.

 Rosenberg did do something in his book I did not see coming, and ticked me off a bit at him.....you'll have to read the book to see what that was. I was afraid he'd kill off the main character like in his last book, but - slight spoiler here - he lets that up in the air. Literally.

 This was truly an awesome read that was entertaining while also being sobering. Though fictional, the book does show how tenuous relations are between Russia and  the US, and how bad things could get if those relations become strained.

About the author:

Joel C. Rosenberg is the founder of The Joshua Fund and the New York Times best-selling author of THE LAST JIHAD (2002), THE LAST DAYS (2003), THE EZEKIEL OPTION (2005), THE COPPER SCROLL (2006), EPICENTER (2006) and DEAD HEAT (2008) with more than 1.5 million copies in print. THE EZEKIEL OPTION was named by the ECPA as the Gold Medallion winner of the "Best Novel of 2006." Joel, an evangelical Christian whose mother is Gentile and whose father is from an Orthodox Jewish background, previously worked with several U.S. and Israeli leaders, including Steve Forbes, former Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Natan Sharansky, and former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He has been interviewed on hundreds of radio and TV shows.

He and his wife have four sons and live near Washington, DC.

The Kremlin Conspiracy is available from Tyndale House Publishing.

Thanks to Tyndale for the review copy.