Richard van Doren

Alarming Revelations (Book Two in The Abel Haskins Trilogy) (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Abel Haskins, former parish minister and now former detective in the Port City Vice squad, finds himself unemployed and in desperate need of a diversion. Given his heroic exploits in smashing The Deep Dark child trafficking ring, he is now so recognizable that he can no longer conduct secretive investigations. So, while he is financially secure, he needs a job desperately. Enter his brother-in-law Silas, founder and senior minister of The New Eden Christian Fellowship, a mega-church with over two hundred thousand followers on YouTube. Silas, whom Abel considers a blowhard, needs a biblically literate candidate to teach the book of Revelation to a class of 4th graders, a brand-new educational policy insisted upon by a host of obnoxiously vocal parents.

Why Revelation, both Abel and Silas wonder, the last book in the Holy Bible and one filled with bizarre and even frightening imagery? Abel soon learns there is something troublingly amiss in Silas' church. The new members want Silas out and replaced by the flamboyant representative of a new world-wide denomination. Trouble is: The Sacred Earth Fellowship, the new "Christian" sect, has a secretive and sinister history, one that hints at violence and sexual abuse. Abel puts his detective skills to work in hopes of exposing unseemly, even dangerous motives among the new church's leaders, which ultimately leads to a suspenseful, explosive conclusion.

Alarming Revelations portrays the endless clash between the Christian Church and the gospel of Jesus Christ, which supposedly is the church's sole legitimate source of inspiration. Such is not and never has been the case. Twisting biblical teaching to justify virtually any kind of human behavior continues to bring embarrassment on the faith, and Abel plans to do his part to stop it. Unfortunately, in the process he puts his family and friends in dire jeopardy.

Alarming Revelations will appeal to anyone who bears a grudge against the church, who laments over the state of the church, or who simply wants to learn more about this religion that, after two thousand years, simply will not go away. It contains a heavy dose of humor, suspense and unforgettable characters like Jesse, Silas' brother, who suddenly transforms from rags to riches as the agent of a controversial rock band The Discontents; Elizabeth Cordry, the unstable beauty who could be Abel's friend, lover - or betrayer; and Bobby Cripper, anti-hero of Way Down in the Deep Dark, the death row con who serves as an invaluable pipeline of life-saving information.

While this is the second book in a planned trilogy, one does not have to read the first book to fully enjoy its sequel.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Richard Van Doren
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. August 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781005841188
• Artikelnr.: 72374816

Autorenporträt

Richard Van Doren is an ordained minister in a mainline Protestant denomination. He has always been fascinated by the fringe element in American culture and the extreme events that test faith. All of his novels and short stories deal with the collision of spirituality and earthly crises, or the ongoing conflict between the forces of good and evil. He moonlights as a college composition instructor, and every semester he teaches his students the two most important rules of writing: 1) write on a subject about which you know something, and 2) write on a subject about which you feel strongly. Over the years he has read and heard about countless instances of dark invasions into every day, innocent living. Anyone who has ever experienced something very strange, or who believes that we live in a reality that extends far beyond this world of the five senses will find his novels and stories much to their liking. All of these works contain instances that Van Doren has either experienced in his career or was told about by friends, students, parishioners and family.