History Literature / UndergroundZealot

* GoneHorriblyRight: The Christian Underground prayed for a miracle, in the form of God cutting off the water supply to LA.[[spoiler:They didn't expect the Almighty to remove all moisture in the entire area for everyone but His followers (it's not clear what effect, if any, this has on animals and plants).]]

* HistoricalBeautyUpdate: In-universe example; someone wanting to make a movie about Bia Balaam (who is described as "rawboned" and "thin-lipped") considers casting attractive and "[[YouKeepUsingThatWord curvaceous]]" actress Julia Peters in the role.

* SecretPolice: The National Peace Organization (aka [[FanNickname the Atheistapo]]), which "rose from the ashes" of the FBI and CIA.

%%* UnitedNationsIsASuperpower: They declared religion to be illegal, and apparently a capital offense.

* WarIsGlorious: There have been no wars anywhere on the planet for thirty years when the story takes place, and this is a bad thing.

* WorldWarIII: In the book's backstory, all of the world's religious wars somehow escalated into this. After it was all said and done, the UN made it a capital offense to be religious.

* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: Oh so much.

The main protagonist of the story is Paul Stepola, an ex-military agent of the NPO and supporter of the regime. Yet after experiencing a series of mysterious events, the atheist Paul comes to doubt his previous convictions, and eventually converts to born-again Christianity. He then begin a dangerous game, acting as a spy and double agent [[TheMole within the security apparatus]] on behalf of the underground Christians...

''Underground Zealot'' is a [[ThrillerLiterature techno-thriller]] series by Jerry Jenkins (otherwise known for co-writing the similarly themed ''Literature/LeftBehind'' series). TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, after the world's religious conflicts escalated into WorldWarIII, a new OneWorldOrder has arisen. The UN world government, which now rules the DividedStatesOfAmerica, has outlawed all religions completely -- with death as the punishment for unrepentant believers. Such Christians that remain have been forced underground, where they have formed the Zealot movement. To root them out is the task of the federal [[SecretPolice National Peace Organization]].

The main protagonist of the story is Paul Stepola, an ex-military agent of the NPO and supporter of the regime. Yet after experiencing a series of mysterious events, the atheist Paul comes to doubt his previous convictions, and eventually converts to born-again Christianity. He then begin a dangerous game, acting as a spy and double agent [[ReverseMole within the security apparatus]] on behalf of the underground Christians...

* MightyWhitey: Paul is basically the Christian equivalent of this to the other underground Christians.

%%* GreatOffscreenWar: WW3.

* BrokenAesop: Immediately after the zealots, with great effort, manage to spread pamphlets around Los Angeles saying that “We are no threat to the government or the status quo,” and asking themselves why the atheists feel so threatened by them when all they want is "the free exchange of ideas", they let the world know that they're praying for God to cut off the water supply to the city.[[spoiler: He chooses instead to remove all water from the city, killing thousands in the process.]] To be fair, they didn't know (and could hardly have predicted) that this would be the result.

%%* AerithAndBob

* BrokenAesop: Immediately after the zealots, with great effort, manage to spread pamphlets around Los Angeles saying that “We are no threat to the government or the status quo,” and asking themselves why the atheists feel so threatened by them when all they want is "the free exchange of ideas", they let the world know that they're praying for God to cut off the water supply to the city.[[spoiler: He chooses instead to remove all water from the city, killing thousands in the process.]]

** It's also odd that in this atheist-run world of debauchary, Paul and Jae stayed together in an unhappy marriage for a decade or so rather than divorcing after the 27th time Paul cheated.

The main protagonist of the story is Paul Stepola, an ex-military agent of the NPO and supporter of the regime. Yet after experiencing a series of mysterious events, the atheist Paul is converted to born-again Christianity. He then begin a dangerous game, acting as a spy and double agent [[ReverseMole within the security apparatus]] on behalf of the underground Christians...

There are three books in the series, which are:

The main protagonist of the story is Paul Stepola, an ex-military agent of the NPO and supporter of the regime. Yet after experiencing a series of mysterious events, the atheist Paul is converted to born-again Christianity. He then begins to act as a spy and double agent [[ReverseMole within the security apparatus]] for the underground Christians...

The main protagonist of the story is Paul Stepola, an ex-military agent of the NPO and supporter of the regime. Yet after experiencing a series of mysterious events, the atheist Paul is converted to born-again Christianity. He then begins to act as a spy and double agent for the underground Christians...

''Underground Zealot'' is a [[ThrillerLiterature techno-thriller]] series by Jerry Jenkins (otherwise known for co-writing the similarly themed ''Literature/LeftBehind'' series). TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, after the world's religious conflicts escalated into WorldWarIII, a new OneWorldOrder has arisen. The UN world government, which now rules the DividedStatesOfAmerica, has outlawed all religions completely -- with death as the punishment for unrepentant believers. Such Christians that remain have been forced underground, where they have formed the Zealot movement. To root them out is the task of the federal National Peace Organization.

''Underground Zealot'' is a [[ThrillerLiterature techno-thriller]] series by Jerry Jenkins (otherwise known for co-writing the ''Literature/LeftBehind'' series). TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, after the world's religious conflicts escalated into WorldWarIII, a new OneWorldOrder has arisen. The UN, which now rules the DivideStatesOfAmerica, has outlawed all religions completely -- with death as the punishment for unrepentant believers.

After a series of miraculous shenanigans atheist Paul Stepola, an agent for the National Peace Organization (NPO), is converted to born-again Christianity. Paul then acts as a spy and secret agent for the underground Christians.

''Underground Zealot'' is a [[ThrillerLiterature techno-thriller]] series by Jerry Jenkins (otherwise known for co-writing the ''Literature/LeftBehind'' series). After the world's religious conflicts somehow turned into WorldWarIII, the UN decided to outlaw religion completely - with the usual punishment apparently being death.

''Underground Zealot'' is a [[ThrillerLiterature thriller]] series by Jerry Jenkins (best known for co-writing the Literature/LeftBehind series). After the world's religious conflicts somehow turned into WorldWarIII, the UN decided to outlaw religion completely - with the usual punishment apparently being death.

''Underground Zealot'' is a series by Jerry Jenkins (better known for co-writing the Literature/LeftBehind series). After the world's religious conflicts somehow turned into WorldWarIII, the UN decided to outlaw religion completely - with the usual punishment apparently being death.