Robert Ferrigno’s Sins of the Assassin is set in the year 2043, after New York and Washington have been nuked and much of the U.S. has become an Islamic republic. Ferrigno tells John J. Miller that the underlying theory of the novel “is that in a long war, it’s not the technology or weaponry that counts; it’s the will and conviction of the participants — who can last the longest.” But a polemic this is not. If Sins “doesn’t work as an edge-of-the-seat thriller,” Ferrigno says, “then I’ve failed as a writer.”
