Christmas Holiday is not always the celebration of joy and happiness. It is also a time for reflection. With ongoing conflicts of the world today, Christmas can also mean a time of terror. Now and then, incidents happened in Christmas times. Bombings at Churches, explosions in a Mass, both are real. Inspired from these tragedies, a new novel sets on Christmas time is on the waiting line to be released.

The Christmas Special, a new novel to be released on Christmas 2010, is another work from David Hearne, the author of Hulagu’s War. The Christmas Special is a complicated thriller story about romance, political, and racial issues. The protagonists of the story are two teenagers, an Afghan girl and an American boy, who work together to save a Christmas morning from a nuclear attack planned to launch by Muslim terrorists.

From the theme, Christmas Special has quite a cliché one. Issue on race and religion is not an innovative one, but at least has the power to attract potential readers. The combination of dark background with Christmas’s jolly colors on The Christmas Special official website adds a dark aura of this novel. Will this novel be a Christmas’ best seller? We have 125 days counting down to uncover the result.