Customer Reviews:
 The Story Continues May 9, 2008
Another page-turner from Joel Rosenberg. You must read the first three in this series first (The Last Jihad, The Last Days and The Ezekiel Option), but once you do you won't be able to put this one down.
The Copper Scroll April 7, 2008
Excellent, I think it is time for everyone to get in touch with God and learn where humans are heading..
The Copper Scroll April 1, 2008
Excellent Prose to bring Bible Prophecy to life. Should encourage one to read the Biblical references to validat what Joel is saying.
 Not the most exciting book March 29, 2008
I was a little let down with this novel however I read Soft Target by Conrad Jones after and that is fantastic. its a real firecracker of a story that will challenge your views of Islamic Fundermentalism and question just why these people are prepared to die for their beliefs.
Worth its weight in....copper? March 24, 2008
I found this title, The Copper Scroll, while searching Amazon for items 'similar' to the Steve Berry books that I've been reading. Like Mr. Berry's books, author Joel C. Rosenberg has taken a fabled religious cache of riches, this time the 'Temple Treasures' of Jerusalem, and built a political thriller around them.
The discovery of The Copper Scroll is nothing new to readers...having been unearthed in 1956, the scroll details ancient hidden riches, placed in unknown hiding places, thousands of years before. For fifty years since the discovery of the scroll, many have tried, unsuccessfully, to locate all the buriel places of the treasure. But despite all the failed efforts, the search continues.
The unearthing of the treasures would surely be the penultimate victory of those who seek to rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem, the third such undertaking, and keep the treasures safely within the Temple's walls. But of course such a treasure entices many to seek its whereabouts simply for their own gain, which leads to many deadly confrontations, political maneuvering, and betrayals along the way.
Ex-CIA operative Erin McCoy and her recently wedded husband, Jon Bennett, the former senior advisor to the President (and featured characters in past stories by the same author) find their idyllic honeymoon interrupted by a terrorist bombing in Washington, followed by the brutal slayings of a group of archeologists and scholars who all had one thing in common..the pursuit of the Temple Treasures, using the famed Copper Scroll as their guide.
Erin and Jon get caught up in a chase that takes them from Spain to the Middle East in an effort to track down the killer(s) of some of their long-time friends, and to solve the mystery of what lies at the end of the trail that the Copper Scroll seemingly lays out.
Political figures from the newly re-formed Middle East nations (following events in 'The Ezekiel Option') also play into the story as they chase down the Bennetts, at first trying to capture and kill them, then realizing that perhaps the Bennetts are the ones to unearth a treasure beyond imagining that has eluded even the most well-connected and well-outfitted searches.
With a decidedly Christian pen in hand, Joel C. Rosenberg has crafted an interesting thriller for this outing with his well-traveled and often shot at protagonists. Though not as well written as Steve Berry's adventures, in my opinion, the story still holds a reader's interest well enough to reach the ultimate conclusion. And while the ending, though very 'convenient' in its styling, wasn't quite as satisfactory to me as other similar books, it still tied up the intertwining threads of the book well, and left the door open for another sequel to come, which has since been published.
Not the best religious artifact thriller I've ever read, but not the worst.
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