The Jerusalem Syndrome Book

In the early morning hours of October 9, 1995, the Amtrak Sunset Limited, a passenger train on route from Miami to Los Angeles, was derailed in the Arizona desert, a deadly act of sabotage that left one man dead and nearly one hundred injured. The only clue at the scene points to an unknown militia group called the Sons of Gestapo.

The Jerusalem Syndrome: The Wreck of the Sunset Limited traces the story of a pregnant teenager who bears an odd facial deformity, a Vietnam veteran and former Special Forces sniper who, as he descends into the throes of mental illness, latches onto the girl, and a group of Pentecostal zealots - The Children of Light - who have been waiting in the desert over thirty years for Armageddon. Their lives are thrown into turmoil when local and state police, FBI investigators and a horde of reporters make camp by the twisted wreckage of the Sunset Limited. As the search for the saboteurs continues, the authorities find themselves faced with more questions. There are bodies in the desert, an ex-assassin struggling to maintain his sanity as he falls victim to the effects of the Jerusalem Syndrome, and a child about to be born in the wilderness.