Book review: The Alarmists by Don Hoesel

Book Title: The Alarmists
Author: Don Hoesel
Genre: Fiction, Suspense
ISBN: 978-0-7642-0562-0
Publisher: Bethany House
Suggested Retail Price: $14.99

From the book:

It's December 2012 and the world is approaching the brink of panic--the timing of which eerily coincides with the ending of the Mayan calendar. But beneath the chaos and despair, and amid a rising tide of earth-shaking disasters, something far more dangerous emerges--someone is orchestrating it all.

Recruited to a special Pentagon unit, sociologist Brent Michaels and his team have been tasked with discovering why the world is rushing toward doomsday--but can they uncover the truth before the unthinkable happens?
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More and more things are happening around the world that brings the world a little bit closer to chaos. Some of them are natural disasters like floods or earthquakes and some of them are man  made like terrorist attacks.  The government is trying to find out whether there is a connection between all these different events and then find out who is behind them and why.   Brent Michaels is a college sociology professor who has been recruited by the Pentagon to see if there is a connection.

I'm sure many of you are familiar with the *end of the world* in December 2012.  This book is roughly based on that theory.  Is the world really going to end in December 2012?  If you like action and suspense stories, The Alarmists will be right up your alley.  I've never read any other books by Don Hoesel but this one is very well written and easy to follow.  While it contains scientific/military jargon, it's written so that your average reader has no problem understanding it.  Though some of the terms were unfamiliar, I still managed to follow the story line and understand the general idea of what the technical jargon meant. It just made the story all the more interesting for me.   I love the way that Brent Michaels discovers that science and religion don't need to be two separate things at all. That's something missing in too many stories today.

My thanks to Bethany House for allowing me to review this book.

As required by the FTC: I received a product sample in order to write my review.  I received no monetary compensation.  All opinions expressed are mine and mine alone.