Deadline

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Summary: Incredible! Great Mystery! Even better trip to Heaven!
Review: Wow! I am two-thirds of the way through Deadline and I can hardly set it down to do all the necessary mom-things. I have read other 'Christian' mysteries but none with the thought provoking story of Deadline. I am reading a fantastic murder mystery and getting more excited for Jesus with every page. I don't want the book to end. I consider myself a tough reviewer and I highly recommend Deadline.

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Summary: A Must Read
Review: Wow. This book is riveting!! My husband and I stayed up 'till all hours of the night reading until we had devoured the story. It is an excellent read. There is so much excellent commentary on the direction we as a society have gone. I think this would be a good gift for non-believing friends who love mysteries. There's a lot packed into this book. I can't wait to read Dominion!

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Summary: SPECULATIVE, BUT SPECTACULAR
Review: Alcorn's presentation of the afterlife is speculative by his own admission, and this is certainly a weakness of the novel. Readers who want their concept of heaven to be determined by Scripture must be discerning and be aware which aspects are Scriptural and which are speculation. Despite this weakness, however, this novel spectacularly demonstrates the eternal consequences of our response to the gospel, as well as the emptiness of modern culture.

The insight into the secular bias of the media that the reader gains from this book alone makes it worth reading.

Christian fiction at its best!

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Summary: The book will change your life!
Review: Being a Christian is hard enough in todays' enlightened world with its new age movement, constant secular evolutionist "truths" and the incessant verbal, and sometimes physical, attacks against ideas and beliefs held most dear. Randy Alcorn walks the reader through a complex, yet very plausible, murder mystery while providing Christian models for everyday behavior. He approaches quite of few of today's issues with grace and style without swerving in his convictions. He provides insightful views of the afterlife to include that of an active productive joyful heaven where learning and growth never cease to the contrasting hell as the complete absence of God. The characters are believable and filled with life - suffering from everyday troubles and trials. The ending will move you and you will have a difficult time forgetting this novel. I have purchased over twenty copies as gifts for non-Christian friends because this book will change your life.

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Summary: AWWW-YEAH!
Review: Wow! What a book! My husband and I read it together and so it was kind of anoying to have to wait for him to have time to finish up some of the more suspenseful parts. Great book. Great language. Wonderful descriptions. Coming from the Northwest it seemed like it was taking place in my backyard.

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Summary: The Best Christian Fiction Book I Have Read
Review: I have read all of the Left Behind series to date and they are good, and I have read many other Christian fiction books (piercing the darkness & this present darkness, screwtape letters etc) this is a classic and the BEST CHRISTIAN BOOK I HAVE EVER READ! I DID NOT WANT IT TO END! I WAS IN TEARS AT THE END OF THE BOOK AND COULD NOT STOP STARING AT THE COVER! I gave this book to my wife to read after her mother passed away and she said it really helped her through it all. I would advise you get this book and the sequel Dominion in the hands of all your friends and family members that are on the fence or playing with God.

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Summary: The Best!
Review: I read this book, twice, a couple of years ago. It still remains my all time favorite book, and I read a lot. It is the only fiction book that I have highlighted, it is that good! I always have it on hand to give away. If you have not read it, don't delay another day, you won't be able to put it down!

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Summary: The ultimate Choice
Review: This is really one of the best books I've read (and I really like to read)! It has everything: a great story with depth and suspense. This book made me think about my life. An exceptional book....a MUST read for everyone, Christians and non-Christians!

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Summary: This book will change your life!
Review: I was given this book as a goodbye gift from my youth group and I absolutely loved it. I couldn't put it down. I know that God was the author of this book. I loved the author's views on heaven and hell, one line that really hit me was the explanation of hell, it is the absence of God! Wow powerful stuff. Very good book and it will help you to realize how important spreading the good news is and how important it is to live in faith every day, you never know when your deadline will be!

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Summary: Get Real!
Review: This book took me a while to get into...but it's also taken me longer to forget. On the one hand, Alcorn paints a more realistic view of life than Christian novels often do; on the other hand, it dives deeply into thought-provoking--sometimes contrived--discourse. I appreciated the transformation of the characters through the story, and found myself looking forward to more in the next book, "Dominion." Alcorn seeks to deliver a message through his fiction, and he succeeds. At times, the story takes a backseat to the message, but he manages to gather the plot threads back together before they fray into thinly veiled sermons. For any readers put off by this book's length, try Alcorn's "Edge of Eternity." It's a shorter, powerful allegory of the road to Jesus, a modern Pilgrim's Progress, except this time the Pilgrim isn't quite sure where he's headed. Don't try to read "Deadline" with any deadlines--spend time with it and absorb it. It might seep deeper than you think.