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Behold a Pale Horse

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This is a very good story and I spent about full time reading it until I was done. Cobra is the main character, a long distance shooter/assasin, but a good interesting fellow. I enjoyed the tie in to JFK and the life of Cobra (I would have loved more details, at least another 100+ pages more). Tolliver is the other main character and a man of problem that makes it to the White House. The only thing I did not care for was the book's layout, it started in 1963 for a few chapters than jumped to 1999 and while going to 2000+ it interspersed chapters filling in some of the years between. I like more sequential stories, but it still was very good and I highly recommend it.

By 1963, the Rhodesian Cobra is an established assassin with Lumumba among his victims. His current assignment in Havana is to kill Castro, but he purposely misses shooting a cigar instead. When the Cubans catch him, Cobra explains that he intentionally missed. He proves his boast by reconstructing the shot using a "volunteer" from Texas, Rupert Justice Tolliver as the target. Cobra successfully demonstrates his abilities. The Cubans send him to meet J. Edgar Hoover's South Florida contact Fernandez who provides Cobra with his next job. In late November in Dallas, Cobra carries out his assignment. To escape the country, he joins the Marines.

Over the next three plus decades, Rupert becomes a TV evangelist and governor of Texas. Cobra buys a large farm in his homeland that he finances with an occasional hit. By 2001 Rupert is the president while Cobra continues to work his farm. Rupert believes that he is the world's savior and begins a religious war as described in Revelations. The international financial community panics and hires Cobra to kill Rupert. However, Cobra is unaware that the real brain behind the presidency is the First Lady and she has no compunctions to walk both sides of the conflict to gain what she wants.

BEHOLD A PALE HORSE is an exciting political thriller that keeps reader attention from start to finish. The story line never rests as the 1963 scenario ties back into the 2001 potential apocalypse. Though the characters are not going to gain any empathy, the audience will admire Cobra's chutzpah and gasp at Rupert's obsession with Revelations. Franklin Allen Leib had forged a triumphant tale that will send his fans searching for his previous novels.

Harriet Klausner

This is an exciting book. You have a hired killer who took part in the original Kennedy assasination. The other character is a Texas Governor named Justice Tolliver who moves to the Presidency. The hired killer named Cobra has an interesting biography and an impressive list of hits. The President and his first lady are as wild as they come. They have shady land deals, the President was also a draft dodger. This book has every kind of scenario that you could ask for. The plot is outstanding as well. This will be one of the better books that you will read this year. You will be wondering if Cobra is sucessful in his newest assignment. You this book. It is a thriller.

here is the book of the end of days. set in modern America against the Kennedy administration to the new millennium, a credible retelling of the Revealtion of St. John the Divine. Full of action, passion, and tragedy, followed by redeption. Philip.

He's done it again -- at first glance a taut, tightly written thriller, intricately plotted, full of examples of Leib's ability to evoke time and place, and portray a wide range of subjects with the ring of authenticity. But there's much more than that, on another level it's a penetrating meditation on the Book of Revelation and its meaning for us today. Leib is far deeper and more thoughtful that the average writer of adventure fiction --- when will he hit the best seller list?

THE BEST BOOK OF THE LAST YEAR OF THE 20TH CENTURY RINGING IN THE NEXT. THE TENSION BETWEEN THE EMBATTLED PRESIDENT AND HIS NEMISIS IS ELECTRIC OVER 37 YEARS. THE GAME IS GOOD, BUT YOU WON'T GUESS THE ENDING. BE PREPARED TO READ ALL NIGHT. ALLEN

a wonderful tale of the apocalypse set from dallas in 1963 to washington and brazil in 2001, when the third millennium really begins. characters-president tolliver, his wife clarissa, his pursuer, cobra--excellent. highly recommended. roger.

a clever tale of violence, treachery and mayham as the millennium approaches. scary answers to JFK, Castro, and the cold war. prescient. recommended. Alexandr.

I have followed Franklin A. Leib's writings for the past ten or more years (Fire Arrow, Fire Storm, etc.) Behold a Pale Horse is by far his best work to date. It is truly a book that you cannot put down until the final word is read. I look forward to his next book with much anticipation as it is interesting to see this gifted writer develop into one of the leading writers of the new millenium.

This is the second of Lieb's books I have read and have the third one on order. His tying in of history along with fiction is well done. His development of characters is also a great work. I will read all his books and hope for more