NEW AMERICA by Michael A. Smith - FIRST EDITION BOOK

Jeremiah is back. After an absence of several years, the charismatic religious leader returns to lead millions of his converts to "New America," his separatist colony in the Dakotas built on his teachings. And he returns to wreak havoc on the life of Laura Delany, the journalist with whom he is obsessed. After stalking and threatening Laura for years, he finally kidnaps her and presents her with a fate beyond her worst imaginings: She is to bear his son, who is to carry on his legacy of bigotry and destruction as set forth in the Book of Second Jeremiah. Laura's husband, former FBI agent Steve Wallace, sets out for New America, intent on rescuing Laura and killing the madman before he can put his plan into effect. It won't he easy. Renegade U.S. Army officers and foreign mercenaries have taken over the South Dakota National Guard, transforming it into a formidable force of well-trained, well-armed men - the new army of New America. Jeremiah's plan is to split the United States along its faultlines of intolerance and fear - and he intends to use the unwilling Laura to help him accomplish his goal.