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Reviewed by Alice DiNizo for Readers' Favorite
Patricia Scott was once on the New York City police force. But she lost her partner during the horrors of 9/11 as he walked up the stairs of Tower One just as it came crashing down. Shaken and with unanswered questions about why she survived, Patricia takes a job with the Department of Homeland Security in Chicago and marries Will Scott who owns a small trucking company in their small town of Plainfield, Illinois. Halfway across the world in Tehran, Abdas Hemati is convinced that Allah wants him to help bring down the Great Satan, America, and the Little Satan, Israel. Dirk Pierson, Will Scott's top dispatcher, is Abdas' link here in the United States as he was converted to Islam while in jail. Scott Trucking has recently hired new drivers, who are devout Muslims although it is unknown to all. Abdas and his younger brother Raifa are sending crates of explosives into Venezuela from where they will go by submarine to Nicaragua. Then these explosives will be placed into a truck marked Bluefields Coffee Company that will slowly make its way up to Texas where the six new Scott trucking employees await it. Each of these truckers will take a metal box of explosives from that truck and will surround it with coffee and head to a major city in the United States. There they will blow up the truck, its contents and themselves, committing "Jihad" and unbelievable destruction of life and property. Patricia Scott is good at putting things together but can these terrorists be stopped?
"18-Wheeler Jihad" is a good read but a scary one, for what author Ken Bontrager writes of might come true in this violent world. The author knows his facts and when he creates the six new Scott drivers as orphans from the 2002 bombing of Baghdad, the reader will be fully convinced. That the workings of Abdas and his cohorts are alternated chapter by chapter with what Patricia Scott and others at the Department of Homeland Security are investigating heightens the story's suspense. Good characters, good plot line and good story!
