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A chat with award-winning novelist, screenwriter, journalist, and media entrepreneur Roger L. Simon about Emet, the first book in a thrilling new series.
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About Emet
A rabbi who doubts. A city on edge. A truth older than memory rising from the earth.
When Nashville is shaken by the brutal murder of a young woman visiting from New York, Rabbi Benjamin “Ben” Golub—a reluctant spiritual leader whose faith has long wavered—finds himself drawn into a crisis far larger than grief and consolation. The crime unmoors his congregants, ignites simmering fears, and pulls the rabbi into the orbit of two people connected to the victim: Ed, a Serbian-born sculptor with a past marked by war, and Tamara, a sharp-witted New York publicist fleeing her own heartbreak.
But when a freak tornado hits the city, exposing strange phenomena in the rabbi’s own backyard, Ben confronts something he never expected: evidence that an ancient Jewish legend may be more than myth. What begins as a whispered joke—a lump of mud shaped like a man—soon reveals a terrifying capacity for action.
As violence escalates, anti-Jewish hatred rises worldwide, and the rabbi’s private doubts collide with what he witnesses, Ben must decide what he truly believes—and what he is willing to unleash. Because the line between protector and monster is thinner than anyone imagined. And truth—emet—has consequences.
Emet is a gripping, unsettling novel about faith, fear, justice, and the supernatural forces that emerge when an ordinary man is pushed past the limits of reason.
Advance praise for Emet
“A thriller that’s as fast and furious as it is thoughtful and smart.” – New York Times bestselling novelist Andrew Klavan
“A thrilling page-turner with a satisfying ending.”- Glenn Reynolds, American legal scholar and founder of Instapundit
“A tour de force full of . . . wit and wisdom and positivity amid peril.” – Kurt Schlichter, novelist and Townhall columnist
“(Emet) doubles as a political and religious commentary, making it even more captivating and enlightening . . . (it) screams for sequels and an equally riveting television streaming series.” – David Limbaugh
About Roger L. Simon
Roger L. Simon is an award-winning novelist, screenwriter, journalist, and media entrepreneur whose career spans more than five decades across literature, film, and cultural commentary. He first gained prominence with his bestselling Moses Wine detective series, beginning with the 1970s breakout hit The Big Fix, which became a cultural touchstone and later a Hollywood film starring Richard Dreyfus. Simon wrote the screenplay, beginning a career in Hollywood that also saw him write, among many others, Bustin’ Loose (with Richard Pryor), Scenes from a Mall (with Bette Midler and Woody Allen), and the Paul Mazursky-directed Enemies, A Love Story, for which Simon was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. A Better Life, for which Simon wrote the story, was released in 2011; its lead actor, Damien Bichir, was also nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award. Simon also directed the independent feature Prague Duet, starring Gina Gershon and based on a screenplay he wrote with his wife, Sheryl Longin.
Simon has taught screenwriting at Robert Redford’s Sundance Institute and at the American Film Institute. He is a former president of the PEN Center USA West, former vice-president of the International Association of Crime Writers, and a former member of the board of the Writers Guild of America.
Simon has become a leading voice in political and social journalism, co-founding PJ Media, one of the earliest and most influential digital platforms in the online commentary landscape. His work has appered in major publications worldwide, and he is known for his sharp intellect, fearless critique, and his ability to fuse narrative craft with cultural insight.
Emet launches a provocative new series that confronts the spiritual and geopolitical dangers facing Christians and Jews in the modern world. Simon, 82, calls this creative resurgence “remarkably optimistic” and feels this is arguably some of his most ambitious work to date.
