The Third Trumpet - Softcover

DiVerniero, Anthony

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1642374075 ISBN 13: 9781642374070

Publisher: Gatekeeper Press, 2018

Synopsis

Mother Nature has unleashed a fury that knows no bounds. Governments around the globe are entrenched in chaos as fundamentalist and homegrown factions plot revolution. The European Union is becoming an economic superpower without a conscience. Hidden agendas threaten to destroy the Constitution itself. A presidential election looms as discontented Americans call out for change. Congress teeters on the precipice of anarchy. Retired Colonel Giacomo DeLaurentis is forced back into service when a murder attempt puts his political activist sister in a coma. Letters and a stolen journal from his deceased father—the “messenger from God”—are brought to light, connecting family events to the peril of the planet. As all hell (quite literally) breaks loose, Giacomo has premonitions like his father once did. When his paranormal gift reveals the impending assassination of the President of the United States, he takes action, but first, he must stop those who wish to destroy a prophecy of old and its heirs. Giacomo’s investigation crosses two continents and four countries as the nexus of the threat emerges—a secret organization with members in the top echelons of every major government and the Vatican. Its goal: world domination.About the AuthorANTHONY DIVERNIERO, acclaimed award-winning author of Messenger from God, has written a new and spellbinding sequel that will have readers on the edge of their chairs as they follow its treacherous plot twists and turns. A second-generation Italian, DiVerniero was born and raised in Connecticut. He draws on his ancestral roots and decades of international travel to create a vivid cultural background forhis characters. A pilot since he was sixteen years old, DiVerniero enjoys studying the unique characteristics of the peoples of the world with the hopes of transferring that knowledge into words of meaningfor humanity. Although he was fueled by a desire to write since he was young, it took DiVerniero fifty years to put words to paper. Currently completing An Angel’s Cry, the third novel in the Last Eulogy seriesTony D, as DiVerniero likes to be called, looks forward to starting on his fourth book, The Considerate Man. He can be reached at tdproph20@gmail.com or through his website Anthonydbooks.com.Book Review:In this paranormal thriller, a retired military commander races to save the world. At the outset of this sequel, the United States is in tough shape. Massive weather disasters strike with alarming regularity; unemployment remains in the double digits; inflation is rampant (a loaf of bread costs over $5); and the country faces an incredibly divisive presidential election. This gloomy state of affairs is further darkened by three deadly assaults that happen in rapid succession: U.S. ambassador and consummate Washington insider Winston Tarmac is blown up in his limousine; Saleem Nasir, the prospective chief of staff to rising Republican star and presidential candidate Thomas Maro, is incinerated in his jeep; and Rio DeLaurentis, a political activist who’s just gone viral with a video in which she berates Congress as a bunch of “moronic a-holes,” is supposedly killed when a missile takes down her private plane. Rio and her retired colonel brother, Giacomo, are the children of Paolo DeLaurentis, whose accurate visions of the future before his death fueled the first installment of DiVerniero’s (Messenger From God, 2013) series. The attempted assassination of Giacomo’s sister (readers learn immediately that she survived and is in a coma, although almost everyone in the story thinks she’s dead) propels him into a continent-hopping mission to prevent what he’s seen in a vision of his own: the assassination of the U.S. president, plunging the world into even greater chaos. -- Kirkus Reviews

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About the Author

ANTHONY DIVERNIERO, acclaimed award-winning author of Messenger from God, has written a new and spellbinding sequel that will have readers on the edge of their chairs as they follow its treacherous plot twists and turns. A second-generation Italian, DiVerniero was born and raised in Connecticut. He draws on his ancestral roots and decades of international travel to create a vivid cultural background for his characters. A pilot since he was sixteen years old, DiVerniero enjoys studying the unique characteristics of the peoples of the world with the hopes of transferring that knowledge into words of meaning for humanity. Although he was fueled by a desire to write since he was young, it took DiVerniero fifty years to put words to paper. Currently completing An Angel's Cry, the third novel in the Last Eulogy series Tony D, as DiVerniero likes to be called, looks forward to starting on his fourth book, The Considerate Man. He can be reached at tdproph20@gmail.com or through his website Anthonydbooks.com.

Review

In this paranormal thriller, a retired military commander races to save the world. At the outset of this sequel, the United States is in tough shape. Massive weather disasters strike with alarming regularity; unemployment remains in the double digits; inflation is rampant (a loaf of bread costs over $5); and the country faces an incredibly divisive presidential election. This gloomy state of affairs is further darkened by three deadly assaults that happen in rapid succession: U.S. ambassador and consummate Washington insider Winston Tarmac is blown up in his limousine; Saleem Nasir, the prospective chief of staff to rising Republican star and presidential candidate Thomas Maro, is incinerated in his jeep; and Rio DeLaurentis, a political activist who’s just gone viral with a video in which she berates Congress as a bunch of “moronic a-holes,” is supposedly killed when a missile takes down her private plane. Rio and her retired colonel brother, Giacomo, are the children of Paolo DeLaurentis, whose accurate visions of the future before his death fueled the first installment of DiVerniero’s (Messenger From God, 2013) series. The attempted assassination of Giacomo’s sister (readers learn immediately that she survived and is in a coma, although almost everyone in the story thinks she’s dead) propels him into a continent-hopping mission to prevent what he’s seen in a vision of his own: the assassination of the U.S. president, plunging the world into even greater chaos. The key moments of that disaster were all foreseen by Paolo before he died, and periodically throughout the gripping book those prophecies are doled out posthumously in letters he left behind for his children. These missives predict in more or less specific terms incidents that begin to combine into a Christian end times picture that will culminate with something called “the last eulogy.” “This is the time,” Giacomo explains, “when we are given the last chance to right the wrongs before darkness falls upon us.” But before such apocalyptic events begin, there’s plenty of taut, Tom Clancy-style international intrigue to unfold, involving everything from a violent militia group called the Fighters for Freedom Brigade to the villain of the previous volume, Dr. Colin Payne, whose long shadow extends over the plot of this sequel. Giacomo is DiVerniero’s main action-hero focus for the global machinations because he has those posthumous notes guiding him as well as tantalizing visions of the future. But the author is here writing at the top of his form, and the book is filled with other enjoyably realized characters, particularly the hapless and overmatched American president, Arthur Waldron; his equally harried vice president, Jerry Richardson; and Maro, the son of a Muslim woman and a Coptic Christian man. Characters are constantly getting threatening phone calls from the sinister forces lurking behind the scenes as DiVerniero expertly ratchets up the plot’s tension before the fast-paced climax. An action-packed international tale with Christian overtones and strong characters -- Kirkus Reviews

About this edition

• Publisher: Gatekeeper Press
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1642374075
• ISBN 13: 9781642374070
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 478