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ADAM by Ted Dekker

This week, the

Christian Fiction Blog Alliance

is introducing

ADAM

(Thomas Nelson April 1, 2008)


by
Ted Dekker

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Ted is the son of missionaries John and Helen Dekker, whose incredible story of life among headhunters in Indonesia has been told in several books. Surrounded by the vivid colors of the jungle and a myriad of cultures, each steeped in their own interpretation of life and faith, Dekker received a first-class education on human nature and behavior. This, he believes, is the foundation of his writing.

After graduating from a multi-cultural high school, he took up permanent residence in the United States to study Religion and Philosophy. After earning his Bachelor's Degree, Dekker entered the corporate world in management for a large healthcare company in California. Dekker was quickly recognized as a talent in the field of marketing and was soon promoted to Director of Marketing. This experience gave him a background which enabled him to eventually form his own company and steadily climb the corporate ladder.

Since 1997, Dekker has written full-time. He states that each time he writes, he finds his understanding of life and love just a little clearer and his expression of that understanding a little more vivid. Dekker's body of work encompassing seven mysteries, three thrillers and ten fantasies includes Heaven's Wager, When Heaven Weeps, Thunder of Heaven, Blessed Child, A Man Called Blessed, Blink, Thr3e, The Circle Trilogy (Black, Red, White), and Obsessed, with two more...Renegade, and Chaos to be released later this year.



ABOUT THE BOOK

He died once to stop the killer...now he's dying again to save his wife.

FBI behavioral psychologist Daniel Clark has become famous for his well-articulated arguments that religion is one of society’s greatest antagonists. What Daniel doesn’t know is that his obsessive pursuit of a serial killer known only as “Eve” is about to end abruptly with an unexpected death-his own.

Twenty minutes later Daniel is resuscitated, only to be haunted by the loss of memory of the events immediately preceding his death.

Daniel becomes convinced that the only way to stop Eve is to recover those missing minutes during which he alone saw the killer’s face. And the only way to access them is to trigger his brain’s memory dump that occurs at the time of death by simulating his death again…and again. So begins a carefully researched psychological thriller which delves deep into the haunting realities of near-death experiences, demon possession, and the human psche.

"As always with a Ted Dekker thriller, the details of ADAM are stunning, pointing to meticulous research in a raft of areas: police and FBI methods, forensic medicine, psychological profiling-in short, all that accompanies a Federal hunt for a serial killer. But Dekker fully reveals his magic in the latter part of the book, when he subtly introduces his darker and more frightening theme. It's all too creepily convincing. 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."

New York Times best-selling author Ted Dekker unleashes his most riveting novel yet...an elusive serial killer whose victims die of unknown causes and the psychologist obsessed with catching him.

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Trish's Take

This book had my attention from page one. I'm a fan of any book or television show that involves people who are trying to figure out the behavior patterns of another person. When I was in college, I thought I wanted to be a psychologist or psychiatrist. My ultimate goal was to work for the FBI or some government agency tracking down the bad guys by using their behavior and their habit patterns to make educated guesses as to what they would probably do next.

The above summary gives you a pretty good idea of what Adam is about. I enjoyed this book. There were a few surprises, but I have read Ted Dekker's books before, so I knew things like that were going to happen. Towards the middle of the book the story started to curve in a different direction than where I originally thought it was headed. It's not a book for the feint of heart.

I enjoyed Adam ~ I finished the book in 2 days, which is pretty quick for me nowadays. I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys a good story about the evil that occupies this world but who doesn't want to have to read Stephen King or the like in order to be entertained. Dekker did not write a gorey book, nor do I believe anyone will be so frightened by this book as to have nightmares. But Dekker does address certain supernatural elements that can frighten those who aren't prepared for it.

My 15-year-old son is currently reading this book. He's a fan of Dekker, and I have no problem letting him read it. If he were extremely sensitive I may have second thoughts about that, but my son is well-rooted in the Word of God, and he knows "our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms." (Ephesians 6:12)