Jason Elam and Steve Yohn: Scoring Big with Monday Night Jihad

It’s got intrigue and suspense. It’s got professional football. It’s got guns.

If the guy in your life is a reluctant reader, Monday Night Jihad might just be the book that hooks him into the joys of good Christian fiction.

Monday Night Jihad, by Jason Elam and Steve Yohn, tells the story of Riley Covington, a pro linebacker and former Air Force lieutenant who gets called back into duty to serve in a special operations unit overseas. His mission? To help stop radical terrorist attacks against the United States.

Riley finds himself in a frantic race against time, to find and thwart the terrorists before they can carry out their plan to destroy the heart of America.

As a kicker for the Denver Broncos, as well as an avid student of the Bible and the Middle East, Jason Elam gets the details right, from the locker room to the barracks. Steve Yohn is director of adult ministries at Fellowship Community Church in Centennial, Colorado, and an avid speaker and spiritual mentor. Together, they have crafted a story that Joel Rosenberg, author of The Last Jihad, calls “a chilling ride through a nightmare scenario.”

For all of its thrills in both the football stadium and the antiterrorism arena, Monday Night Jihad is much more than a simple thriller or sports tale. Riley must rely on his Christian convictions to cope with his dangerous mission and sort out his complicated feelings toward an American Muslim woman. “Riley is confronted by some tough problems in this book,” Jason says. “He questions what’s going on and why, as most of us do.”

So give a copy of Monday Night Jihad to your favorite guy. He might just surprise you by happily spending time with his nose in a book . . . after the postgame show, of course!

Look for Monday Night Jihad at your favorite bookseller.