Gore, Jenkins to Team Up for Novels

NEW YORK - Al Gore and Jerry Jenkins will collaborate on a series of novels which will tell of the coming destruction of Earth by environmental catastrophe. Viking Press will publish the books.

Mr. Gore, a former Vice President, has made a name for himself advocating environmental causes. He is featured in the movie An Inconvenient Truth which warned viewers of the dangers of man-made climate change. The film won an Oscar for Best Documentary earlier this year.

Mr. Jenkins co-wrote the Left Behind series of novels with Tim LaHaye. The Left Behind series included twelve books which gave a fictional telling of the end of the world from a Christian dispensationalist, premillennial position.

The two men are thought to be a great combination. "Jerry is a professional novelist with terrific sales numbers in the end-of-the-world fiction genre and Al is well known as an authority on climate change," said Brian Simpson, spokesman for Viking. "The combo of Jerry's plotting and Al's environmental knowledge will create very entertaining and informative reading."