”And just at that instant there rose as if from the bowels of the earth a light not of this world.”

 

- William L. Laurence, New York Times, August 26, 1945, Account of the Trinity Test on July 16, 1945

A Second Edition, Revised and Updated, of A Light Not of This World now is available, exclusively for a short time, on Amazon Kindle for $3.95.
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Set several years in the future, A Light Not of This World is about nuclear attacks on the United States by a small group of terrorists, the hunt for them before they explode more bombs, the retaliation against their supporters and suppliers, and the heroic actions by Americans in response to the tragedy.

This edition contains revisions and updates necessitated by events that have occurred since 2010, and to correct some minor errors. However, nothing has occurred since 2010 that makes the story any less plausible today. If anything, real events are tracking fairly closely to the future fictional situation described in the novel.

A fugitive Pakistani nuclear scientist slips into the U.S. and disappears. An undercover FBI agent looking into an al-Qaeda link to a Baltimore import company is murdered. When Maryland Governor-elect David Randall, a retired Marine General and terrorism expert, investigates, he is swept into the firestorm that engulfs the nation and is called on to help lead America out of its worst nightmare of tragedy and terror.

Told through the heroic and self-sacrificing actions of some of the characters, and the evil actions of others, this novel draws themes from contemporary events and debates over military doctrine, nuclear proliferation, American foreign policy and containment of terrorism.

A LIGHT NOT OF THIS WORLD should appeal to readers of political and military thrillers, speculative fiction, and those who are concerned about nuclear proliferation, American policy in Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan, and the threat of terrorism. Unusual for a novel, it has a Note on Sources and a Bibliography at the end.