Thursday, November 01, 2007

Not in Time for Christmas?

Jason Elam has written a novel. Actually, co-written. With his pastor. A football novel. With spies in it. And murderous Islamocists coming to strike the heartland. And football. Thankfully, Jason has realized the ridiculousness of having a NFL Kicker that fought in Afghanistan and came back to the NFL and then got recruited to help fight Evil Muslims--his character, Riley Covington, is a linebacker. See? Now it makes sense.

I don't want to be a total dick, but there's exactly 1 player who left the NFL to go fight in Afghanistan, and he didn't come back alive, and I have a hard time believing that Pat Tillman would agree with the worldview espoused in the book. It seems a bit perverse to me to co-opt him (not him--Tillman was a safety!) to write a novel coming from the mind of a guy who is getting his Masters via Liberty University, the institution founded by the man who "outed" Tinky-Winky, Jerry Falwell.

Jason Elam is confident in his ability to get in the heads of sinners, though: "If Osama bin Laden himself were to pick up this book and read it, I'd want him to say, 'Yeah, that's why I do what I do. That's how I justify, how I reconcile, that's what I believe.' "I'm really trying to take people into the mind of this person as best I could and really show the why; not just what they believe, but the why."

Did I mention the title yet? It is so fucking apt it kind of hurts a little. Look for Monday Night Jihad early in 2008, assuming the Islamofacists haven't killed us all by then.

Update:
We see that 100% Injury Rate beat us to this. But good Lord (blasphemy!) there's enough weird to share, yeah?

4 comments:

100% Injury Rate said...

Glad you found he's getting his masters via Liberty University. I have to buy this book now. I smell Pulitizer.

100% Injury Rate said...

And by Pulitizer I mean Pulitzer.

Muumuuman said...

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Andrew Wice said...

Nothing makes me cry faster than some doo-whip spelling my name wrong.

Elam's Christian book boasts "A story that combines all the action of a first-rate spy thriller with the intrigue of professional sports."

Funny, I would have put "intrigue" with "spy thriller" and "action" with "sports" but maybe that's why my novel is being published by a small research institute in Boulder which mostly specializes in hard science (physics, anthropology, ethnography) while Elam's is being published by a heavyweight Christian publisher (Tyndale) which boasts the sacrilicious HeartQuest romance series and the bazillion-selling Left Behind series on their roster.