O JERUSALEM

About the Book

O Jerusalem offers adventure, travel, and mystery. This modern fiction depicts its characters’ minds. It expresses the anger that most people feel with extremism.

The story begins soon after the 9/11 bombings. Christians, Jews, Muslims, atheists and anarchists all risk destroying themselves and each other. Fanatics almost cause an apocalypse. Fake news deludes everyone. In London, Jack is a fanatical atheist seen through the eyes of his moderate girlfriend Emma, whose uncle is the Archbishop of Canterbury. In New York, Chaim is a Jewish extremist observed by graduate student Helen and her Professor. In Istanbul, Sheikh Abu, who directs Islamic terrorists, is studied by Ersan, a Turkish philosopher. In Wichita, Kansas, young Betsey is inspired by the radio preacher Rev. Jones to undertake a Christian mission to Kabul; a cub reporter follows her misadventure. In Jerusalem, a magical Indian child appears and is killed delivering his message, "Make peace or die." The Lollypop minister is a nut-case Israeli populist willing to risk nuclear war. Edward, a sane Israeli, is trying to reconcile Jews and Muslims. The darkroom anarchists, funded by an unknown billionaire, have great technical resources and considerable imagination to cause much trouble.

About the Author

R. P. Hanna is the pen name of a long retired American university professor who has lived outside the USA for the last thirty years. He is the author of scholarly reference works. He taught literature in the USA for twenty years, then lived and worked for several years in the near Middle East while administering university programs.