|
The Copper Scroll (Political Thrillers Series #4) | 
 enlarge | Author: Joel C. Rosenberg
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers
Category: Book
List Price: $13.99
Buy Used: $7.46
You Save: $6.53 (47%)
New (39) Used (18) from $7.46
Rating:  101 reviews
Sales Rank: 3708
Media: Paperback
Pages: 384
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.4 x 1.1
ISBN: 1414303475
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9781414303475
ASIN: 1414303475
Publication Date: March 31, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
| |
| Also Available In:
|
| Similar Items:
|
| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
Saddam is gone, Arafat is dead, and a new Iraq is rising. But when a suicide bomber strikes Washington and assassinations unfold from London to Los Angeles, Jon Bennett and Erin McCoy are drawn back into a world of terror they thought was over. At the heart of the mystery lies a 2,000-year-old scroll describing unimaginable treasures that could lead to the Third Jewish Temple. Some call it history's greatest treasure map. Others call it a road map to Armageddon. But the time to find the truth is running out fast.
|
| Customer Reviews: Read 96 more reviews...
 another exciting story that will have you on the edge of your chair. August 12, 2006
ellen (Atlanta, Georgia USA)
50 out of 60 found this review helpful
I reread The Ezekial Option to get me back up to date on events leading up to The Copper Scroll. Scroll starts off where Option leaves off - Bennett and Erin get swooped up in another adventure in the volatile middle east - Iraqi President Al-Hassani wants to unite Arab countries after the devastation of The Ezekial Option. Eli Mordechai gets the Bennets on a hunt for the Key Scroll to the Copper Scrolls, found in the 1950's, that say the Scrolls deciphered shows the place of treasures that were mentioned in the Bible - including the Ark of the Covenant! Israel is going to rebuild the Temple, and the bad guys don't want it to happen. So the chase begins - This is an exciting story with current overtones of the tension in the middle east,of great faith, and giving yourself into that faith.
Rosenberg is one of those writers that puts you in the game with the characters and action as well as Old and New Testament writings and how the are relevant to the present.
Ready for the next one, Joel!!
A very good read!!!!!!! January 4, 2007
Richard D. Cappetto (Moodus, CT United States)
27 out of 31 found this review helpful
The Copper Scroll is the forth book in Joel C. Rosenberg's end times series. Its a very fast paced and exciting read, that is based around the Ancient prophecy's of the Bible. What Rosenberg does is look at the Bible prophecy's and modern trends and write up a fictionalized account about what may happen soon. He has had the uncanny ability to hit some things right on the head such as terrorists using airplane's in a terror attack (which he wrote of in his first book The Last Jihad) The death of Arrofat (in his second Book, The Last Days) and much more (the third Book in the series is the Ezekiel Option. Rosenberg's Books are centered upon His fictionalized cheaters; President James "Mac" MacPherson, Jon Bennett and Uzi Toting Super Model Looking CIA agent Erin McCoy; and many others. In the Copper Scroll Rosenberg center's on the search for the Ark of The Covenant, the treasures and implements of the Jewish temple, which have been lost for century's. The Copper Scroll a very fun read and at the same time educational, You will learn some of the important prophecy's that may soon come to pass. I cannot wait for the 5th book.
Searching for Temple Treasures February 5, 2007
Bill Jordin (Smyrna, GA USA)
21 out of 21 found this review helpful
The Copper Scroll (2006) is the fourth evangelical thriller in the Last Jihad series, following The Ezekiel Option. In the previous volume, a massive earthquake occurred under Jerusalem. Then red hot stones fell out of space to strike Russia and her allies when they attempted to destroy Israel. Military units and installations were the hardest hit, but government offices, shrines, mosques and other buildings were devastated. Mecca and Medina were smashed flat.
Jon Bennett and Erin McCoy were saved from Russian security and army troops by yawning crevices that swallowed their pursuers. As Moscow burned around them, Jon and Erin fled down the river in a speedboat.
In this novel, Jon and Erin are married in full church ceremony. Shortly after the minister pronounces them man and wife, pagers start going off among the witnesses. A suicide bomber has attacked in the heart of Washington, DC, but the victims are only ordinary people.
After dining with their friends, Joh and Erin leave for their honeymoon. They swear a mutual pledge to leave politics behind and just enjoy their new marriage. After their first night together, Jon asks Erin where she would like to spend the rest of their honeymoon and she chooses Ronda in Andalusia.
After enjoying being together and visiting the intriguing landmarks of the town, Jon finds an urgent message at the hotel from Ken Costello, who had taken over Jon's former position as senior advisor to the President. Returning the call, Jon learns that Eli had been ambushed in Israel and was undergoing emergency surgery. Jon and Erin rushed to Israel to be with their old friend.
Eli tells them of a new evil rising after the War of Gog and Magog, but he dies trying to pass on one more piece of information. Israeli Prime Minister David Doron confides to Jon that Eli had put together a team of archaeologists to track down some new information about the Copper Scroll. But Eli is the fourth member of that team who has been killed by some unknown group.
Doron also mentions that the Israelis are planning on building the Third Temple on the devastated Temple Mount. Jon is appalled at the idea, since it would infuriate the Muslims. Doron says that Islam has been wiped out, but Jon points out that the Islamic Jihadists have been destroyed, but other Muslims still remain. Doron seems not to care.
Doron provides Jon with a phone number of another team member, Yossi Barak, the chief archaeologist at the Israel Museum. He calls ahead to alert Barak of Jon's interest. When Jon calls the number, the phone is answered by Natasha Barak, another archaeologist and Barak's granddaughter. She arranges a meeting the following morning at the museum.
In this story, Jon and Erin learn about the discovery and translation of the Copper Scroll. They also find out that another scroll is the Key to the Copper Scroll. Acting on their own, they follow clues toward the Temple treasure that was supposedly hidden from the Romans. Along the way, the learn that this treasure may include the Ark of the Covenant.
Once again, the author tracks biblical prophecy toward the End Days. After the destruction of the military and political power of Russia and most Islamic nations in the previous volume, it should be obvious that Jon and Erin are destined to survive to the very end. But they will presumably be lifted up to heaven during the Rapture, so who will be the protagonists when the Anti-Christ appears?
In Old Testament prophecy, the building of the Third Temple will signal the coming of the End Days. Since the Temple is not rebuilt in this novel, another sequel must be forthcoming. Stay tuned!
Recommended to Rosenberg fans and to anyone else who enjoys takes of biblical prophecy, desperate shootouts and hidden treasure.
-Bill Jordin
Interesting premise, and something I was unaware of... August 27, 2006
Thomas Duff (Portland, OR United States)
16 out of 21 found this review helpful
Joel Rosenberg has gotten a lot of press lately with his end-time prophesy novels that seem to predate actual headlines. His latest book, The Copper Scroll, takes off from where The Ezekiel Option left off. It's not quite as good, but still it's an enjoyable read with a few things I need to research further...
Jon Bennett finally gets married to Erin McCoy (from the prior novel), and they are both ready to bid farewell to public government service. But as soon as they are pronounced "man and wife", world affairs interfere with their "happily ever after". A suicide bombing attempts to take out the President, and Jon & Erin are slowly dragged back into service to offer insights. When Mordechai, the Jewish person who came up with the Ezekiel Option during the last attack on Israel, is gunned down, they are driven to help solve the murder. This murder, and a number of others, are all related to the "copper scroll", one of the finds from the Dead Sea Scrolls. The copper scroll reportedly tells where a vast fortune of treasure is stored, but they first need to find the "key scroll". That will point the way towards solving the mystery, and it will also lead to the rebuilding of the Temple in Jerusalem. Naturally, there are a number of Arab groups who will do anything to stop this, and these groups are the ones that are willing to kill to keep things as they are...
I didn't think this was quite as good as The Ezekiel Option, even though it's intriguing. I didn't know there even was such a thing as the Copper Scroll, but Rosenberg has plenty of references and annotations so you can do your own investigation. While this particular item might truly be a way that the Temple is rebuilt in Jerusalem, I didn't get the same "this is happening now" feeling as I got from his prior work. Still, it's not as if this couldn't happen or transpire in a similar fashion.
Good as entertainment, with the added element of realism that has been under the radar of most stories about the Dead Sea Scrolls. If you're a fan of Rosenberg's work, you'll enjoy this...
 Drab insipid formulistic hokum with utterly contrived cartoonish characters! August 27, 2006
JanSobieski (United States of America)
14 out of 27 found this review helpful
And I'm sugar coating it! I barely, and I mean BARELY made it through this hogwash and only did so by skimming large portions of the book when it became even more unbearable than the remainder of this silly little book. Rosenberg has written reasonably engaging books in the past, but this boy has simply run out of steam.
Our heroin, Erin McCoy Bennett is now married to her "much more than a soul mate," Jon Bennett. Rosenberg's cloying sentimentality when describing their love for one another is so obnoxiously thick that it left me gasping for the thin air of reality. Erin is more than gorgeous, intelligent, spiritually aligned and athletic. She so so much more. Erin is capable of superhuman feats of bravery, strength, marksmanship and finally survival. I half expected to find her in a bar fight protecting her man. Erin is product of Rosenberg's fetid overwrought imagination which imagines that a woman can only have value insofar as she resembles a man. Rosenberg's heroic women are actually androgynous hermaphrodites! His women have it all!! Literally!
And our hero, Jon Bennett, is financially wildly successful but still capable of maudlin sensitivity AND shedding a tear - actually many a tear. This guy hardly stopped crying through the entire book. He was brought to tears so many times I lost count.
And luck?! These two put the luck of the Irish to utter and complete shame. They managed to find the Ark of the Covenant in just a few short days! But they didn't do it alone. There to help them was a conveniently placed Natasha Barak who was motivated by a blood lust for revenge after her grandfather is killed before her very eyes. She's a helicopter pilot just when one is needed! She has all the equipment our valiant heroes need. And conveniently tucked away in her basement is a piece of laser equipment capable of unlocking the secrets of yet another scroll discovered by our heroes. And even though the previous copper scroll took several months to open our intrepid heroes are able to accomplish the same thing in just a few hours of dabbling all the while being hunted by dedicated killers!!
The author also takes this opportunity to proselytize outrageously and not particularly convincingly. I am a proud Christian but this guy gratuitously piggybacked his testimony into a poorly conceived and written story. I've read all of Rosenberg's books but this one will be my last.
|
|
|
|
| |
