Rating: Summary: Smashing review from Publishers' Weekly which includes Review: "Plunging inexorably toward apocalypse, this expertly layered thriller, by the author of The House Of Pain, darkly foreshadows the forthcoming 2000 presidential elections."
Rating: Summary: wonderful layered thriller Review: a clever tale of violence, treachery and mayham as the millennium approaches. scary answers to JFK, Castro, and the cold war. prescient. recommended. Alexandr.
Rating: Summary: The Millennium into our own time Review: A fine, twisted yarn of a president from America's heartland, a prophecy of John set in the hands of the instrument of the Devil. Profound, briliant.
Rating: Summary: dark and compelling thriller Review: a man of the millennium finds himself, almost by accident, president of the united states at the dawn of the third millennium. he hears portents of the end of time. he acts on those predictions, and he is targeted by forces who may be representatives of the devil, and their agent, Cobra.but is cobra the agent of good or evil? frightening. john, georgia
Rating: Summary: as the saint foretold the end of days Review: a wonderful tale of the apocalypse set from dallas in 1963 to washington and brazil in 2001, when the third millennium really begins. characters-president tolliver, his wife clarissa, his pursuer, cobra--excellent. highly recommended. roger.
Rating: Summary: SOLID THRILLER, AND FRIGHTENING Review: behold a pale horse is the most sensible book of the apocalypse i have read. i am a bible-reading christian and believe. leib has it just right, set in our modern era of scandal and hope. may.
Rating: Summary: An exciting political thriller that ties into JFK Review: By 1963, the Rhodesian Cobra is an established assassin with Lumumba among his victims. His current assignment in Havana is to kill Castro, but he purposely misses shooting a cigar instead. When the Cubans catch him, Cobra explains that he intentionally missed. He proves his boast by reconstructing the shot using a "volunteer" from Texas, Rupert Justice Tolliver as the target. Cobra successfully demonstrates his abilities. The Cubans send him to meet J. Edgar Hoover's South Florida contact Fernandez who provides Cobra with his next job. In late November in Dallas, Cobra carries out his assignment. To escape the country, he joins the Marines. Over the next three plus decades, Rupert becomes a TV evangelist and governor of Texas. Cobra buys a large farm in his homeland that he finances with an occasional hit. By 2001 Rupert is the president while Cobra continues to work his farm. Rupert believes that he is the world's savior and begins a religious war as described in Revelations. The international financial community panics and hires Cobra to kill Rupert. However, Cobra is unaware that the real brain behind the presidency is the First Lady and she has no compunctions to walk both sides of the conflict to gain what she wants. BEHOLD A PALE HORSE is an exciting political thriller that keeps reader attention from start to finish. The story line never rests as the 1963 scenario ties back into the 2001 potential apocalypse. Though the characters are not going to gain any empathy, the audience will admire Cobra's chutzpah and gasp at Rupert's obsession with Revelations. Franklin Allen Leib had forged a triumphant tale that will send his fans searching for his previous novels. Harriet Klausner
Rating: Summary: BEHOLD A PALE HORSE brings the millennium into focus Review: Follow the portents and events as a president of the United States, a preacher, sees the prophecy coming true and acts. And is opposed by forces he sees as darkness. Above this is the real political struggle that starts in Havana in 1963 and runs to the end of time. Get to know Cobra, the assassin with a conscience. This is a struggle between good and evil, but who is which?
Rating: Summary: Another great read from Leib Review: He's done it again -- at first glance a taut, tightly written thriller, intricately plotted, full of examples of Leib's ability to evoke time and place, and portray a wide range of subjects with the ring of authenticity. But there's much more than that, on another level it's a penetrating meditation on the Book of Revelation and its meaning for us today. Leib is far deeper and more thoughtful that the average writer of adventure fiction --- when will he hit the best seller list?
Rating: Summary: visionary. scary Review: here is the book of the end of days. set in modern America against the Kennedy administration to the new millennium, a credible retelling of the Revealtion of St. John the Divine. Full of action, passion, and tragedy, followed by redeption. Philip.
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