A New York Times Bestseller A CBA Bestseller With Saddam Hussein and Yasser Arafat out of the way, a dazzling era of security and prosperity seems to have come to the Middle East. But a new evil looms on the horizon. A dictator is rising in Russia. Iran is building nuclear weapons. Jon Bennett and Erin McCoy - two senior White House advisors - find themselves facing the most chilling question of their lives: Is the world rushing to the brink of an apocalypse prophesied more than 2500 years ago?