Dead Heat

Its place in The Last Jihad

Dead Heat is book 5 in the The Last Jihad series. It follows The Copper Scroll. See the full The Last Jihad reading order.

Joel C. Rosenberg's debut series follows Jon Bennett, a young Wall Street oil-and-gas strategist pulled into the White House's inner circle as the Middle East slides toward all-out war. Published just over a year after the September 11 attacks, The Last Jihad opens with an assassination attempt on the U.S. President during a Colorado ski trip and a hijacked jet racing toward the White House -- and from there the series spends five books moving Bennett through escalating crises: the death of Yasser Arafat and a…