The political thriller “Destroy Israel...” was signed for publication shortly before the horrific terrorist attacks in New York and Washington. The author, an orientalist and specialist in Islam, foresaw in the novel how far fanatics could go in realizing the idea of creating an Islamic caliphate. Arab sheikhs and Uzbek extremists, Afghan Taliban and Chechen bandits are the protagonists of the author's version of the operation to seize a nuclear device and strike Israel. The goal of the action is to radically change the geopolitical situation in the Middle East... The plot of A. Shchelokov’s book would have looked fantastic before D-Day - September 11, 2001. Now it is perceived as a fatal prophecy, a very real scenario of the actions of Islamist terrorists, part of their global plan for war against the civilized world to establish a new world order.