Over the course of an extraordinary year, Zev Chafets--former New York "Daily News" columnist and onetime director of the Israeli government press office--traveled the world to explore the improbable confluence of Jews and evangelicals. He spent quality time with Jerry Falwell, visited Jewish cadets at West Point, attended the world's biggest Christian retail show, embarked on a road trip with the rabbi with the largest gentile following since Jesus, journeyed to the Holy Land with a band of repentant Christian pilgrims, and broke bread with George W. Bush and five hundred fellow Jewish Republicans.

"A Match Made in Heaven" is the penetrating, engaging, and often hilarious narrative of Chafets's determined quest to get to the root of a very serious question: Why do evangelicals support Israel so strongly? Equal parts history, comedy, travelogue, and political tract, it is a smart and adventurous odyssey along a rapidly changing religious and political border.

It's ten years after the Gulf War and U.S. Speaker of the House Dewey Goldberg has been sworn in as President of the United States following the accidental deaths of his predecessors. But he soon discovers that Israeli Prime Minister Elihu Barzel may be backing a fundamentalist opponent. Concerned, he dispatches his journalist-friend Charlie Walker to investigate. What Walker discovers is a plan code-named "The Project" -- a plan so compelling that it not only jeopardizes the president's chances for reelection, but also the delicate and precarious balance of world power.

"Another hugely entertaining tale from Chafets". -- Kirkus Reviews

"Fast-paced....Recommended". -- Library Journal

"Ross Thomas, Elmore Leonard, Lawrence Block and Donald Westlake -- all reliable purveyors of elegantly shady entertainment...Zev Chafets clearly belongs in their raffish company". -- Washington Post Book World