The First Hostage (#02 in J B Collins Series)

Joel C. Rosenberg

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Description: Book 2 in the J. B. Collins series
Over 100,000 copies sold!

“The president of the United States is missing.”

Three years before Clinton and Patterson, another New York Times bestselling author of thirteen international thrillers, Joel C. Rosenberg, posed this chilling scenario: What if the Islamic State captured the most valuable hostage in history?

Award-winning journalist J. B. Collins, reporting from the scene of a devastating attack by ISIS terrorists in Amman, Jordan, puts the entire world on high alert—the U.S. president is missing and presumed captured. With Israeli and Palestinian leaders critically injured and Jordan’s king fighting for his life, the allies are reeling and hopes for the peace process are dashed. As the U.S. government faces a constitutional crisis and Jordan battles for its very existence, Collins must do his best to keep the world informed while working to convince the FBI that his stories are not responsible for the terror attack on the Jordanian capital. And ISIS still has chemical weapons.

Struggling to clear his name, Collins works frantically with the Secret Service to locate and rescue the leader of the free world before ISIS’s threats become a catastrophic reality.

“One of the most entertaining and intriguing authors of international political thrillers in the country. . . . His novels are un-put-downable!” Steve Forbes, editor in chief, Forbes magazine

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About The Author: Joel C. Rosenberg, the grandson of Orthodox Jews who escaped Czarist Russia in the early 1900s, is a New York Times best-selling author of fourteen novels and five non-fiction books with nearly five million copies in print. He has addressed audiences at the White House, Pentagon, U.S. Capitol, Canadian Parliament, and the European Union Parliament, and has met with world leaders such as Jordan's King Abdullah II, Egyptian President el-Sisi, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, among others. He has appeared on hundreds of radio and TV programs in the U.S., Canada and around the world and has been profiled by the New York Times, the Washington Times and the Jerusalem Post. A well-known Evangelical in the U.S., he is the founder and chairman of The Joshua Fund, a non-profit educational and humanitarian relief organization dedicated to educating and mobilizing Christians to "bless Israel and her neighbors in the name of Jesus, according to Genesis 12:1-3." Joel comes from a Jewish background on his father's side, and a Gentile background on his mother's side. He and his wife, Lynn, are dual U.S.-Israeli citizens. They made Aliyah in 2014 and live with their sons in Israel.

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Pages: 460

Publication Date: October 2016