The Copper Scroll

Its place in The Last Jihad

The Copper Scroll is book 4 in the The Last Jihad series. It follows The Ezekiel Option. It is followed by Dead Heat. 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…