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It was an absolutely perfect day . . . until everything went absolutely perfectly wrong. Kent Anthony is a brilliant software engineer who is cashing in on a brilliant career. He's finally living the idyllic life, far from thoughts of theft and murder and other kinds of horrible criminal behavior.He's left his past far behind . . . or so he thinks.Ted Dekker delivers a fascinating story of the almost perfect crime, interwoven with a tale of bittersweet love that is almost enough to save a soul. A story that will bring you face-to-face with a hidden world more real than most people ever realize; a world where the unseen is more powerful than anything seen.

Experience one of the first novels from New York Times bestselling author Ted Dekker.“[Heaven’s Wager is] genuinely exciting . . . fast paced . . . spine-tingling . . .” —Publishers WeeklyA thriller unlike any you have ever read. A love strong enough to bring a tremor to your bones. A sacrifice powerful enough to make heaven weep.At the close of World War II, a shell-shocked solider, Jan Jovic, was forced to inflict a game of life and death on a peaceful Bosnian community. In a few short hours, this young man was confronted by more love—and hate—than most experience in a lifetime.Years later, Jan has become a world-renown writer with widespread influence in the United States, his past buried deep in his memory. Until the most inopportune time, the game Jan witnessed comes back to haunt him . . . and unwittingly leads him to a beautiful but broken woman caught in an underworld of crime.He must now defeat an evil rarely seen. But there is a price. One that even this war-scarred solider can't imagine.“Well, well, guess what I’ve found. A fiction writer with a rare knack for a compelling story, an expansive reservoir of clever ideas, and a unique dry wit that makes me laugh.” —Frank Peretti, New York Times bestselling author“Rarely does a novel grip a reader’s heart and soul the way Heaven’s Wager does. Dekker is among a very small number of writers who have mastered the challenge of blending sound theology with knock-your-socks-off storytelling.” —Robert Liparulo, novelist and contributing editor of New Man magazine

What would you die for?Thats the question suddenly thrust upon a small band of women and children in Bosnia at the close of World War II. When a group of bitter soldiers stumble upon their peaceful village, they suddenly face an insidious evil...and the ultimate test.It is then, in the midst of chaos and pain that The Martyrs Song is first heard. It is then that the window into heaven first opens. It is then that love and beauty are shown in breathtaking reality.You have in your hands the story and the song that changed...everything.

The Circle starts out as a flawed (due to Dekker's poor characterization) but enjoyable fantasy epic with a powerful allegorical message about God's love for His people, but as the trilogy progresses, Dekker's story increasingly falters, and by the end it unravels on itself, leading two very good volumes into a disappointing conclusion.Once again, Dekker fails to resolve his story in a meaningful or concise manner, and a promising trilogy ends on a disappointing note. The novel in itself is not entirely bad, thought the allegorical elements across the three books end up being so rigid that they lose their resonance and meaning. The most offensive move the author makes here (aside from his consistent inability to create fleshed-out human characters) is that his ending is purely nonsensical. Yes, I understand that this story continues in a future novel (Showdown), but it doesn't even follow the rules Dekker creates. While from a narrative perspective, the ending of the "real world" plotline works, there are three glaring plot inconsistencies that mar this book (and take away from the first two novels also):(1) The issue of the blank books. I'll grant that Showdown deals with this issue and explains what became of the books, but it is a pretty cheap move for a writer to insert something significant into his plot for the purpose of using it in a separate story. Furthermore, they present an annoying plot hole in the form of the characters not using such an obvious and powerful tool as the books to stop the virus. While Thomas and Monique's lives are important, it's just stupid to suggest that the characters would not write 'they found an antivirus and saved the world' or any other arbitrary sentence that could end the global crisis.(2) On a related issue, for that matter, the words of the mysterious Billy that caused the entire saga to occur don't follow Dekker's rules that the blank books only change history within the histories. Since the timeline only allows Billy to do this after he has come into contact with the books, and the books cross over in 2010 with Thomas, Billy's writing must take place during or after the events of White. We can understand the "histories" as any time before the events of the forest world (given that it is a time far enough in the past that the living generation does not remember it, hence the Books of History). Technically, Billy could write Thomas out of his own time (since his time is withing the histories), but to write him into the forest world is to write him into the future, and violates the rules of the blank books.(3) The third plot hole that bothered me was the fact that the Roush state the Thomas' actions changed history by altering the timeline. They go on to state the the Deception and the Tribulation still occur, only the date has been changed. So after the entire story, Thomas saves the world, but it is doomed at a later date anyway, so he merely prolonged the inevitable. It's Terminator 3 all over again.(4) My final point is a theological fallacy that weakens the effect of the entire trilogy. Since we are led to believe in the end that the forest world is not an alternate reality, but actually the future of our own world, and Justin becomes not an allegory but a physical manifestation of Jesus, the books imply that Jesus had to die twice in the same reality in order to save humanity, a notion that most Christians would find heretical.The third book is not a narrative disaster, it just suffers from a lot of negative plot elements and poor decisions that weaken not only this book but the whole trilogy. The Circle story started off as a promising allegory about God's love for the people, but it's almost as if Dekker forgot about earlier elements he had committed to and in the end didn't know how to finish his story. I give it three stars as a recommendation, but only for the reason that if you've read the first two books (which are quite good), you'll obviously want to know how it ends. But expect to be disappointed.

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They call him BoneMan, a serial killer who's abducted six young women. He's the perfect father looking for the perfect daughter, and when his victims fail to meet his lofty expectations, he kills them by breaking their bones and leaving them to die. Intelligence officer Ryan Evans, on the other hand, has lost all hope of ever being the perfect father. His daughter and wife have written him out of their lives.Everything changes when BoneMan takes Ryan's estranged daughter, Bethany, as his seventh victim. Ryan goes after BoneMan on his own.But the FBI sees it differently. New evidence points to the suspicion that Ryan is BoneMan. Now the hunter is the hunted, and in the end, only one father will stand.

Did you ever want to read a book that was part psychological thriller, part Twilight-esque love story, and part Christian literature? Then this is the book for you.I liked the first 2/3rd of the story. A psychotic killer is hunting beautiful women, leaving their bodies drained of blood, with bridal veils draped over their faces. And the FBI is called in. There's some sexy tension between the FBI agents working the case. There are also some colorful characters from a nearby mental institution who, despite their illness, have astounding gifts of perception; some of their gifts even border on the supernatural. The killer's crime was murder. The author's crime was laziness.The killer is psychotic, so of course his killing ritual has some wacky rationale like he is the messenger of God. Because he's crazy, he can predict every action that anyone ever will take, so he is always about 67 steps ahead of the FBI agents. He also can find out where random people live and work and who they love.The FBI agent, Brad, loves his girlfriend who killed herself and will never love another. No, wait, he has a second chance for love with his sexy partner. Oh no, she died, how will he ever love again? Well, how about this mental patient? This is the woman he can love for all eternity. And also, he has lots of money and is insanely handsome.The mental patient, whose name is Paradise (the name is kind of like being clubbed in the head with The Hammer of Metaphor) and is basically the most perfect human on the planet. She is deeply insightful and witty, but damaged. She has one flaw: a mental illness that's completely understandable since she saw her father kill other members of her family while she hid in a closet. And she thinks she's ugly because she wears dorky clothes and foregoes makeup. (Don't worry, she gets a makeover. No one in this book gets to be ugly!)She and Brad fall in love after knowing each other for about 5 seconds. The mental patients all save the day because Society needs to treat them better.There was also some religious pontificating about how God loves us all. As the point of view switches between characters, we hear them cover the exact. same. theology. Over and over and over. It's a lovely concept, but it really did start to grate after a while.The worst part is that this book really did show promise. It wouldn't have won any awards for writing, but it built sufficient tension and the fact that Dekker doesn't mind ratcheting up the body count is only more terrifying. Then there is near-instantaneous True Love and We Are All God's Favorite and the Perfect Girl who is so perfect SHE CURES HER OWN MENTAL ILLNESS. IN A DAY.That said, a lot of people liked this book. If you were intrigued by the first sentence, then by all means, scoop this book up for your next vacation. At worst, you'll get about 250 pages of entertainment out of it.

It takes an obsessive mind to know one. And Daniel Clark knows the elusive killer he's been stalking.He's devoted every waking minute as a profiler to find the serial killer known only as Eve. He's pored over the crime scenes of sixteen young women who died mysterious deaths, all in underground basements or caverns. He's delved into the killer's head and puzzled over the twisted religious overtones of the killings.What Daniel can't possibly know is that he will be Eve's next victim. He will be the killer's first Adam. After sixteen hopeless months, the case takes a drastic turn on a very dark night when Daniel is shot and left for dead.Resuscitated after twenty minutes of clinical death, Daniel finds himself haunted by the experience. He knows he's seen the killer's face, but the trauma of dying has obscured the memory and left him with crushing panic attacks. Nothing--not even desperate, dangerous attempts to reexperience his own death--seems to bring him closer to finding the killer.Then Eve strikes again, much closer to home. And Daniel's obsession explodes into a battle for his life . . . his sanity . . . his very soul.Enter a world of death and near death that blurs the lines between fiction and reality in a way that will leave you stunned."The detail is stunning, pointing to meticulous research in FBI methods, forensic medicine, and psychological profiling. We have to keep telling ourselves that this is fiction. At the same time, we can't help thinking that not only could it happen, but that it will happen if we're not careful."David M. Kiely and Christina McKenna, authors of "The Dark Sacrament"

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