Terry Brennan’s new series is sure to keep readers on the edge of their seats
International Intrigue and
End-Times Prophecy Collide
Terry Brennan’s new series is sure to
keep readers on the edge of their seats
At the center of the action is Diplomatic Security Service Special Agent
Brian Mullaney, who is assigned to protect Joseph Atticus Cleveland, the newly
appointed US ambassador to Israel. Mullaney is at the end of his rope as not
only is his marriage in trouble, so is his career. Now he’s been banished to
Israel as punishment by his agency where he is supposed to be guarding the
ambassador and what he considers to be an insignificant box. Little does he know that his new
job will propel him straight into a crisis of global proportions.
Inside
the box is a messianic prophecy about the fate of the world. A dark enemy known
as the Turk and the forces of evil at his command are determined to destroy the
box, the prophecy inside, and the Middle East as we know it. When Ambassador
Cleveland gets in the way, his daughter’s life and Mullaney’s life are
threatened.
The
agents of three ancient empires have launched covert operations to secure
nuclear weapons, in direct defiance of the startling peace treaty Israel and
its Arab neighbors have signed—the Ishmael Covenant. Not only that, a traitor
in the US State Department is leaking critical information to a foreign power.
It’s up to Mullaney to protect the embassy staff, thwart the clandestine
conspiracies, and unmask a traitor—all before the desert is turned into a
radioactive wasteland.
The
inspiration behind Ishmael Covenant started with one idea: that three
ancient empires of the East—Persian, Ottoman, and Islamic—appeared to be on the
cusp of rising again. The idea caught fire when he was introduced to the Vilna
Gaon, Rabbi Elijah ben Shlomo Zalman, who was the most revered Talmudic scholar
of the late eighteenth century. In 2014, his great-great-grandson revealed a
prophecy the Vilna Gaon wrote two hundred and twenty years before: “When you
hear that the Russians have captured the city of Crimea, you should know that
the times of the Messiah have started, that his steps are being heard.” Only months
before that, Russian troops had invaded Ukraine and swept through the Crimean
Peninsula. Brennan took the idea of the rising empires and the premise of an
unexpected treaty between Israel and all its Arab neighbors, wrapped it up in
the Vilna Gaon’s messianic prophecy, speculated about a second prophecy that
was yet to be revealed, and started writing.
Not only does Empires of Armageddon borrow from
numerous threads of actual history, Brennan did an extensive amount of research
into the US State Department, NATO policy, and the Diplomatic Security Service
to make sure all aspects of the story were as accurate as possible. However,
Brennan hopes readers will find even more within the pages of Ishmael
Covenant.
“I hope that readers of Ishmael Covenant
understand that Christians are in a real, tangible war. Believers in Jesus
Christ are engaged in what the notes in my NIV Study Bible for Ephesians 1:3 call
a ‘titanic conflict.’ The notes go on to say that ‘as a result, the spiritual
struggles of the saints here and now are not so much against ‘flesh and blood’
as against the great spiritual forces that war against God in heaven,’” Brennan
shares. “I was struck by the idea that there are great spiritual forces that
war against God in heaven. More sobering is the idea that my spiritual
struggles here on earth have, in some way, an impact on that war in heaven. Not
all of us will come face-to-face with evil incarnate, as Brian Mullaney and the
other characters do in Ishmael Covenant, but agents of evil are at work
in the world today, just as they have been since Lucifer’s rebellion was
crushed and banished to earth.”
Brennan continues, “Through digging deeper into the
concept of spiritual warfare for this book, I’ve learned that I need to reach
beyond the personal conflict of good and evil in my life and be more conscious
of the vastness of this titanic conflict around me. I need to be an example, a
reflection, of Jesus and his love for all souls. And I need to stand up for
light—to be a warrior-ambassador for light—in a dark world that often seems to
be getting darker. But the bottom line is inevitable. Good triumphs.
The end of the Book will never change.”
Fans of Joel C. Rosenberg, Steven James, and Ted Dekker
will relish the deadly whirlpool of international intrigue and end-times
prophecy in Ishmael Covenant and eagerly await the rest of this new
trilogy. Readers won’t have to wait long for the second installment of Brian
Mullaney’s story. Persian Betrayal will be released July 28, 2020.
Advance
Praise
“Terry Brennan’s new release is an engrossing ride into the dark
world of political corruption that feels too close to home. In the epic
unfolding of biblical prophecy, Ishmael Covenant catapults you across a
landscape you’ve only imagined—on both a global and personal scale.”
~ Cher Gatto, award-winning author of Something I Am Not
“James Rollins meets Joel Rosenberg in Terry Brennan’s Ishmael
Covenant, first of his new trilogy, the Empires of Armageddon. An
only-too-plausible, high-octane plotline, superb research, and a powerful
spiritual message make this a must-read for any fan of end-times thrillers—or
student of current-day global politics. My only complaint is that it ended too
soon. When do we get the sequel?”
~ Jeanette Windle, award-winning author of CrossFire, Veiled Freedom,
and Freedom’s Stand
Terry Brennan is the
award-winning author of The Sacred Cipher, The
Brotherhood Conspiracy, and The Aleppo Code, the
three books in The Jerusalem Prophecies series. His latest release, Ishmael
Covenant, is the first in his new Empires of
Armageddon series.
A Pulitzer Prize is one of the many awards Brennan accumulated during his twenty-two-year newspaper career. The Pottstown (PA) Mercury won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing for a two-year series published while he led the team as the newspaper’s editor.
Starting out as a sportswriter in Philadelphia, Brennan became an editor and publisher for newspapers in Pennsylvania, Illinois, and New York and later moved to the corporate staff of Ingersoll Publications (four hundred newspapers in the United States, Ireland, and England) as executive editor of all US newspapers.
In 1996, Brennan transitioned into the nonprofit sector, spending twelve years as vice president of operations for The Bowery Mission and six years as chief administrative officer for Care for the Homeless, both in New York City.
Terry and his wife, Andrea, now live in Danbury, Connecticut.
More on Brennan can be found at www.terrybrennanauthor.com. He is also on Facebook (Terry Brennan) and Twitter (@terrbrennan1).
A Pulitzer Prize is one of the many awards Brennan accumulated during his twenty-two-year newspaper career. The Pottstown (PA) Mercury won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing for a two-year series published while he led the team as the newspaper’s editor.
Starting out as a sportswriter in Philadelphia, Brennan became an editor and publisher for newspapers in Pennsylvania, Illinois, and New York and later moved to the corporate staff of Ingersoll Publications (four hundred newspapers in the United States, Ireland, and England) as executive editor of all US newspapers.
In 1996, Brennan transitioned into the nonprofit sector, spending twelve years as vice president of operations for The Bowery Mission and six years as chief administrative officer for Care for the Homeless, both in New York City.
Terry and his wife, Andrea, now live in Danbury, Connecticut.
More on Brennan can be found at www.terrybrennanauthor.com. He is also on Facebook (Terry Brennan) and Twitter (@terrbrennan1).
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