David Cook is a true scholar. He has taken on the unwanted job of exploring a very dark and foreign world that very few Westerners have explored - but that is entirely relevant to our times. Cook very abley guides the unitiated reader through the frightening and often bizzare world of the modern Muslim apocalyptic writers. What do Muslims believe about End-Time prophecy? Who is ad-Dajjal - the Muslim version of the Anrichrist? Who is the Islamic Messiah figure? Where does America sit in most Islamic End-Time narratives? Cook deals with these and other issues in a very readable non-technical fashion. This book fills a void as it covers an essential aspect of the mind-set of many of today's radical Islamists. Absolutely fascinating stuff for sure. Well worth the time.