Arrows of Allah

Reviews of Works by Thomas J. Nichols. “...a writer with a perfect grip on the pulse of current events and political intrigue.” “...the love of the lead character comes through.” “...written by someone who had been on the inside of some extremely diffi cult investigations.” “...what impressed me was the verisimilitude, the sense of being taken into a story by an author who really had been there and done that.” “...the prose is smooth from start to finish.” “...his characters are presented as believable.” “...Nichols convinced me of the reality of the story and its main characters.” Arrows of Allah is the second in the Christie Cole trilogy. Following her deep undercover investigation in Voices in the Fog, the Arrows of Allah follows the now-married Christie Cole-McCarren into the shadows of the Islamic terrorists’ war on infidels. As a young child, Christie lost her parents in a tornado and was raised by her grandmother. Under her tutelage, Christie became an elementary school teacher. Nevertheless, her life-long goal was to become an FBI agent. Following her grandmother’s death, Christie fulfilled that dream. Upon graduation from the FBI Academy, she accepted assignment into the Bureau’s elite undercover operation, and later to the International Joint Terrorism Task Force. Chief Thomas J. (Tom) Nichols’ police career of fifty-years began in Tucson, Arizona. Over the decades, he served at the rank of Chief in three departments in Arizona and Texas. Graduating from the University of Arizona, Magna Cum Laude, Bachelor of Science in Public Administration, he continued his studies at the FBI National Academy, FBI Law Enforcement Development program, and the Police Executive Research Forum’s Senior Management Institute for Police at Harvard University. Chief Nichols and his wife, Gwendolyon, reside on the Llano Estacado of Texas. They have a son, daughter, and four grandchildren living in the Dallas/Ft. Worth Metroplex.