The Warriors of God

William Christie

Apr 2014 · Open Road Media

About this ebook

This acclaimed 1992 thriller amazingly anticipated the terrorist scourge of the next decade. Now brought up to date by the author and available again as Iran defies the world by pursuing nuclear weapons, it’s plot may just be the stuff of tomorrow’s headlines.

The long-simmering conflict between the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran finally turns hot with an act of terrorism against a U.S. navy ship in the Persian Gulf. American military retaliation shuts down Iranian oil production, and it is war. But not the war we’ve known in the past. Not the war of armies, ships, and planes. No, the war we’ve come to know today. The war of the weak against the strong. War in the shadows. With battles aimed not at the destroying the enemy’s armies, but bent on making headlines.

A handpicked team of elite Iranian commandos are silently making their way to the United States. To Washington D.C. Their target is the President of the United States. In the White House.

The US president is in the crosshairs in “this pulsing techno-thriller . . . a genuine page-turner” from the acclaimed author of A Single Spy (Publishers Weekly).

Major Ali Khurbasi of the Iranian Army leads the assault team. Tough, experienced, American-educated and ready to die for a mission whose wisdom he secretly doubts. Former Marine officer Richard Welsh is the Pentagon liaison to the FBI investigation that begins once it is clear that some violent force has landed on our shores. It is a headlong race as the Iranians fight to reach their objective and the elite of America’s law enforcement and military struggle to stop them.

The White House was burned by the British Army in the War of 1812, an act that shook the new American nation to its core. Could such a thing happen again?

Because if the most powerful man in the world is not safe in the most famous and heavily defended building in the nation, then who of us is? 

Ratings and reviews

Good read and fast moving.

Well written and current.

Warriors of God

About the author

William Christie was born in 1960 in Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1982 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science. On April 13th, 1984, he graduated from Marine Corps Officer Candidate School at Quantico, Virginia and was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant officer. After the Basic Officer Course and the Infantry Officer Course he was assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina in January 1985.

He commanded 2nd Platoon, Company I, 3rd Battalion, 6th Marines from January 1985 to April 1986. This included a 6-month deployment to the 3rd Marine Division in Okinawa, Japan from July 1985 to January 1986. He was promoted to 1st Lieutenant in April 1986, after graduating from the Marine Corps Winter Mountain Leader Instructor Course at Bridgeport, California.

He next served as executive officer (2nd in command) of Company L, 3rd Battalion, 6th Marines. He was then assigned to Weapons Company, 3rd Battalion, 6th Marines as the Heavy Machine-gun platoon commander from July 1986 to August 1987.

During this period, 3rd Battalion, 6th Marines deployed aboard ship to the Mediterranean as the ground combat element of the 26th Marine Amphibious Unit (Special Operations Capable) from January to July 1987. Current practice is to call these units Marine Expeditionary Units.

Leaving the Marine Corps in August, 1987, he began writing. THE WARRIORS OF GOD was published in January 1992. MERCY MISSION was published in August 2000. THE BLOOD WE SHED was published in January 2005.