October 7, 2026
One of the strange experiences of writing political-conspiracy fiction is watching events in the real world occasionally begin to resemble the atmosphere of a story written years before.
Today, the Middle East is again at the center of extraordinary geopolitical tension. The continuing conflict involving the United States and Iran has spread far beyond a confrontation between two nations. Yemen and the strategically vital waterways surrounding it have become another battlefield, while Iran’s nuclear program remains at the center of negotiations and military calculations.
For readers of the Witness Partners saga, some of these themes will sound familiar.
Iran. Israel. Nuclear weapons. Religious conviction. Political leaders confronting decisions capable of changing the world. Regional wars threatening to become something much larger.
These subjects have been woven throughout the Witness Partners novels as elements of a fictional story about power, prophecy, human ambition, and the consequences of decisions made by people who believe history is moving in their direction.
The novels are fiction. Their conspiracies, characters, and hidden organizations belong to the world of Witness Partners, not to today’s news.
But the history surrounding that fictional world is very real.
That is one reason current events can sometimes feel unsettlingly familiar to readers of political and prophetic fiction. The names change. Governments change. Alliances change. Yet nations continue to struggle over territory, security, faith, resources, and power.
Sometimes the most interesting question is not whether fiction predicted the future.
It is why history keeps producing circumstances that make old stories feel new again.
As events in the Middle East continue to unfold, readers of Witness Partners may recognize more than a few echoes.
The story is fiction. The world around it is not.