Wayback

A mysterious Nazi super weapon, hidden for more than 60 years, has been discovered by members of a reclusive, private think tank and perfected using modern technology. This fully realized and reliable device is so powerful, so provocative, that the basic beliefs of science, history and religion could be overturned in an instant.

After a cataclysmic system failure kills an expedition attempting to return to the year 100,000 B.C., a team of skeptical scientists and adventurers is dispatched to the Antediluvian world, a world that no one anticipated full of wonder, danger and advanced civilizations that will rock the accepted theories of science and history to their core.

However, the team is unaware of another plan that is unfolding; there are people who will kill to use this remarkable machine to further their own plans for our past and future.

It is books like this one that make me glad I gave science fiction a chance a few years ago. Sam Batterman's Christian fiction is a page-turning, time-travelling, roller coaster ride back to the days just before The Flood.  This book would be a great choice for a book club as it would provide hours of discussion on Creationism, Intelligent Design and Evolution. My one complaint would be the time-travel back to 1967 Jerusalem section, it was a distraction for me as I wanted to stay with the team that was discovering the Ark.

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Read the first chapter here.

Vicki of Reading At The Beach hosts A-Z Wednesday, this week's letter is "W".

**Thank you to Bring It On Communications for sending me a review copy**

The Missionary

Yesterday, David Eller was an American Missionary in Caracas, Venezuela. Today, he's an international fugitive.

David and his wife Christie rescue impoverished children in the slums of Venezuela. But for David, that's not enough. The supply of homeless children is endless because of the corrupt policies of the Venezuelan government.

In a rare moment of anger, David lashes out publicly against the government, unaware of the chain reaction that will soon follow.

When the CIA offers David a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to play a key role in a "bloodless" coup, he decides to go for it. But little by little, he falls into an unimaginable web of deceit that ends in a desperate, life-or-death gamble to flee the country with his wife and son, with all the resources of a corrupt dictatorship at their heels.

William Carmichael and David Lambert wrote a face-paced, suspenseful christian fiction novel that was realistic and gets you thinking about what you would do in the situation.  I found myself talking to the characters about their choices.  I was glad that the laundry was done and it was a rainy day as I could not put this one down.  I had to find out what happened and was pleasantly surprised by the twist at the end.

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**Thank you to Bring It On Communications for sending me a review copy**