Night Machines
Kia Heavey (Auteur)
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Jonathan Weber, Harvard professor and biblical scholar, is looking forward to a sabbatical year on an archaeological dig in Israel. But a spectacular discovery--a skeleton almost 2,000 years old!--will either shed light on the life of Jesus Christ or be the death rattle of the Christian faith. Meanwhile, Weber's interest in Shannon Jennings, daughter of the dig's director, proves to be an exciting complication.
Delving into the worlds of science, archeology, politics, and religion, this fast-paced thriller explores the tension between doubt and faith and one man's determination to find the truth--no matter what the cost."I'm in trouble, Liz. I've uncovered something . . . They're watching . . . I'm going for help tonight and will contact you as soon as I'm able." That panicked message on her answering machine was the last time Liz Ames heard from her sister Rachel. The police believe Rachel Howard, pastor of Paradise Christian Church in Key West, Florida, suffered an emotional breakdown and ran off. Her behavior had become increasingly bizarre, her sermons dark, frightening. Besides, women didn't meet untimely ends on the island paradise. The police quickly closed the case. But Liz is convinced her sister's disappearance wasn't self-imposed. Fleeing a shattered marriage and a career on hold, Liz moves to Key West to prove her suspicions, her only clues her sister's cryptic phone message and a page from Rachel's journal bearing the Image of a strange, horned flower. Liz isn't on the island twenty-four hours when a successful banker, a man with everything to live for, jumps to his death from his bedroom window. Then a teenage girl whom Rachel was counseling is found brutally murdered in the garden of Paradise Christian Church. The ritualistic style of the killing is hauntingly similar to that used by the notorious "New Testament" serial killer -- now on death row. Could the teenager's murder be the work of a copycat killer? And what was the girl's relationship to Rachel? The police have logical explanations for it all. They don't believe these events are linked. Everywhere Liz turns, she encounters disbelief and suspicion. Only Rick Wells is willing to listen. Wells once had a promising career as a Miami cop . . . until his life fell apart. He missed a chance to work the "New Testament" investigation, but he knows the case and believes its similarities to what's happening in Key West are too great to ignore. Together they struggle to uncover the unspeakable evil at the heart of this seemingly idyllic community. But each step closer to the truth brings more questions -- and more death. For sinister forces lurk within paradise -- and no one seems able to escape, not even at a . . . dead run.
Rose Martin, fearless young nurse, cares for the critically injured. But when a car bomb explosion kills her cancer patient -- rich widow and beloved mentor Sophie Hostetter -- Rose faces a difficult question: Who could have done this? Was it Peter, Sophie's financial risk -- taking son? Rose escapes into the arms of Jake, a man struggling with his past and his Amish heritage, yet decisions come hard in matters of love and forgiveness. Can the living find God's forgiveness for themselves and justice for the dead?
Dr. Nicholas Donovan is a brilliant genetic researcher with little time for God. He's also damaged goods-and knows it-because one of his patients died in clinical trials for a genetic cancer therapy. So why would SynTech Labs be eager to hire the disgraced doctor? Donovan's not sure-but he's not asking questions. Yet. As the new head researcher on SynTech Labs' latest gene therapy, Nick is surprised to learn how many Christians are scheduled for injections at the SynTech Center-and that his predecessor died mysteriously. When he discovers a stockpile of fatal gene therapies, questions flow. Now Donovan must investigate his suspicions without destroying his career. But there's more at stake than his new job: his own life-and the soul he didn't know he had.
Jack O'Malley is a fireman who is fearless when it comes to facing an inferno. But when an arsonist begins targeting his district, his shift, and his friends, Jack faces the ultimate challenge: protecting the one lady who witnessed the arsonist ... Book number four in the O'Malley series brings back Jack O'Malley from The Truth Seeker in a page-turning thriller. It's Christmas. And in this time of celebration, Cassie Ellis has found the real meaning of Christmas; Jack is still searching to understand. Who is Jesus? On that answer rests his hope that someone greater than he is in control of a situation spiraling into terror.
An Ancient Scroll Shakes the Church's Strong Foundation
The chase for a scroll that could change the world is on and you're invited along for the ride with author Gary Parker in his newest contemporary thriller. Taking you from the hallowed, inner sanctums of the Vatican to ancient caves in the Middle East, from the lush tropics of Costa Rica to swank parties among Washington's elite, The Ephesus Fragment is an edge-of-your-seat roller coaster that grabs your attention and refuses to let go. When an archaeology team uncovers a parchment in Turkey that purports to be a message from Mary, the mother of Jesus, the fallout is guaranteed to by cataclysmic. Instantly, factions from the Vatican, the United States government, shadowy foreign parties, and even a dying media magnate begin a frantic and sometimes violent struggle to gain control of the scroll. Father Michael del Rio and U.S. embassy aide Valerie Miller are two people caught in the middle of the maelstrom surrounding the search to uncover the secret of the parchment. But is the document even real and is what it reveals about the mother of our Lord actually the truth? And if it is, can the church survive the certain tremors sure to accompany its revelation? More than just a taut story filled with international intrigue, The Ephesus Fragment is a careful examination of personal Christian faith. No single character can approach the scroll without having his own beliefs challenged, even shaken to the core. Nor can he go away without being forever changed. You'll be changed as well.