The Final Solution

About the Book

The terrorist bombs and guns going off in our world, along with practically every bit of political violence of the last forty years, starting with the assassination of President Kennedy, are part of a single man's demented plot to "save the world" through terror and a climactic, apocalyptic act of sacrifice that will make the crucifixion of Christ look insignificant. Or so we are told by Wolf Berlin, who has accidentally uncovered the mad plot on the Net. Who is Wolf Berlin? He is a man who has always wanted to found a new religion and who now is tempted by the mad genius, a long-lost old friend, to be the Peter and Paul of what looks to be a very effective "religion of the future," one that will bring the global peace Wolf so hungers for. After the dust settles, that is. Whether Wolf agrees to it or not, the Apocalypse is scheduled for the near future. Wolf struggles with his decision to either try to stop the mad plot or join it, as the Doomsday clock ticks on.

About the Author

While teaching a course in "The Apocalypse in Modern Literature & Film" at the University of South Florida, R.F. Dietrich began writing The Final Solution, which reflects his realization that religion from Zoroaster to Billy Graham has featured an apocalyptic "Final Solution" (a concept borrowed from Christianity and given a very ugly twist by Adolf Hitler). Dietrich believes that while the apocalyptic "End of Days" heretofore has been wishful thining, a purely man-made apocalypse is now technologically possible, needing only a handful of True Believers to pull it off, with disastrous consequences for us all. His novel shows that as religious intolerance rises in our world, a Holocaust of Humanity is now not only possible but is growing increasingly likely, waiting only for just the right mad genius to light the fuse.