The Armageddon Project

by Tom Sancton

A bombing in a Paris church lands American journalist Sam Preston in the story of a lifetime—if only he can survive. The attack leads Sam to a group of Assyrian Christians. Their colorful leader-in-exile, Rafat Ganjibar, aims to form a breakaway Assyrian Republic in the oil-rich lands of northwestern Iraq with the help of some powerful supporters: the American Evangelical community, the Israelis, and even U.S. President Jack Ritter. Sam suspects the President and his allies are acting secretly—and illegally—to advance and fund this movement.

Invited to the White House to report on a performance by Princess Tawana, a charismatic Gospel singer enrolled by the Christian Fundamentalists to champion their cause, Sam meets a born-again U.S. Army General. As the shocking details of the “Armageddon Project” begin to fall into place, Sam realizes the end is indeed near—for him.

Now Sam is a prime target for the C.I.A., the French intelligence, and Israel’s Mossad, who dispatch a sexy El Al stewardess to use any means necessary to stop him. To uncover the story and stay alive, he uses his reporter’s instincts and the unwitting help of his foolish brother-in-law, who becomes an unlikely savior in the nick of time. From Paris’ Latin Quarter to the Italian Riviera, from the Swiss banking capital of Zurich to England’s Dover Castle, Sam races to reveal the truth before the “Armageddon Project” triggers a real apocalypse in the Middle East.

Genres: Fiction

366 pages, Hardcover

First published January 9, 2007