The Mahdi

by A.J. Quinnell

Book Overview

Chaos in the Oil States of the Middle East and the rise of Muslim fundamentalism is beginning to form a threat to the stability of the Western World. Both the US and the UK are determined to negate... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0688006469
• ISBN13: 9780688006464
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: William Morrow & Co
• Length: 297 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.

Customer Reviews

This 'novel' really makes you think...

It's the 3rd sentence from the end that will make your jaw drop with a mixture of suspended disbelief and revelation, and tell you that this is perhaps the greatest story you've just read, not least because you can't help wondering if it isn't in fact an expose of the way Central Intelligence really does work, and why the author consequently chooses to use the pseudonym.

Another Amazing book from AJ Quinnell !!!!

Again, Quinnell just find a way to amaze me with this book. The whole plot was pretty cool with trying to creat a "Mahdi" and to use him to run the middle east. The start kind of worried me a little cause it gos into history about the middle east, CIA, KGB and MI6... But it picked up quickly, and right to the VERY end, I loved it. There characters were great, I loved Gemmell and almost hated Hawke, but thats just me.All in all, another truely amazing book from a truely amazin author...Plese check out his other books if you can find them !!!

Mercenary, that's the incredible life of a special human

Quinnell made a spectacular person and his personal war. Sometimes, the society need that man. But, where are the other titles of Quinnell.

A perfect plot for the present Islam Phobia

Great insight into the functioning of the Islamic mind topped up with the ultimate in British Intelligence. It takes about thirty pages to get into it, but then you read it in one go. Great for all observers of Sauudi Arabia and the muslim psyche.Muslims all over the world accept miracles readily, particularly when the miracle is associated with Haj. Quinnel has performed the perfect miracle.

Good yarn about the control of the Middle East

It has been awhile sense I have read this book but it still stands out in my mind. This pre-Clancy thriller uses technology to try and control the moslem world in a spectacular ending where all characters and forces come together in a very unexpected way.