Joel C. Rosenberg is the New York Times bestselling author of sixteen novels: The Last Jihad, The Last Days, The Ezekiel Option, The Copper Scroll, Dead Heat, The Twelfth Imam, The Tehran Initiative, Damascus Countdown, The Auschwitz Escape, The Third Target, The First Hostage, Without Warning, The Kremlin Conspiracy, The Persian Gamble, The Jerusalem Assassin, and The Beirut Protocol and five works of nonfiction. Joel's titles have sold nearly 5 million copies. Visit joelrosenberg.com.