I am a voracious reader whose appetite for reading material spans the many genres. However, my favorite is fiction, escapist fiction. Lately I found myself wishing for more Harry Potter . . . but J. K. Rowling finished the series with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, and it was pointless to wish for more. I even considered rereading Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings or perhaps C. S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia, both of which still sit on my bookshelves. I was craving fantasy. A younger sister, also one of my trusted reading buddies, had earlier introduced me to Ted Dekker, a New York Times best-selling author originally known for his Christian fiction; and I had enjoyed a number of his books. For my birthday she sent me Ted Dekker’sTHR3E, a psychological thriller, and his The Circle Trilogy: Black Red White. The latter, three fantastic “adrenaline-laced epics where dreams and reality collide,” satisfied for a while my hunger for fantasy. We wait now for the fourth in the series, Green, which will be
both a prequel and a sequel, to be released in September. In the meantime, in addition to my other reading, I have been enjoying more of his earlier works my sister sent me.
—TED DEKKER is known for novels that combine adrenaline-laced stories with unexpected plot twists, unforgettable characters, and incredible confrontations between good and evil.—
Below are just a few of his novels I recommend you read.
THR3E
By Ted Dekker
Copyright 2003
ISBN 0-8499-4512-7
Imagine answering your cell phone one day to a mysterious voice that gives you three minutes to confess your sin.If you don’t, he’ll blow the car you’re driving to bits and pieces. So begins a nightmare that grows with progressively higher stakes. There’s another phone call, another riddle, another three minutes to confess your sin. The cycle will not stop until the world discovers the secret of your sin.
THR3E is a psychological thriller that starts full tilt and keeps you off balance until the very last suspense-filled page.
THE CIRCLE TRILOGY: BLACK RED WHITE
(The Complete Trilogy in One Epic Edition)
By Ted Dekker
Copyright 2004
ISBN 978-1-59554-532-9
Fleeing assailants through an alleyway in Denver late one night, Thomas Hunter narrowly escapes to the roof of an industrial building. Then a silent bullet from the night clips his head and his world goes black. When he awakes, he finds himself in an entirely different reality—a green forest that seems more real than where he was. Every time he tries to sleep, he wakes up in the other world, and soon he truly no longer knows which reality is real.
Never before has a trilogy of this magnitude—all in hardcover format—been released in an eight-month window of time. On the heels of The Matrix and The Lord of the Rings comes a new trilogy in which dreams and reality collide. In which the fate of two worlds depends on one man: Thomas Hunter.
BLESSED
By Bill Bright and Ted Dekker
Copyright 2001
ISBN 0-8499-4312-4
The young orphan boy was abandoned and raised in an Ethiopian monastery. He has never seen outside its walls—at least, not the way most people see. Now he must flee those walls or die.
But the world is hardly ready for a boy like Caleb.
When relief expert Jason Marker agrees to take Caleb from the monastery, he unwittingly opens humanity’s doors to an incredible journey filled with intrigue and peril. Together with Leiah, the French Canadian nurse who escapes to America with them, Jason discovers Caleb’s stunning power. But so do the boy’s enemies, who will stop at nothing to destroy him. Jason and Leiah fight for the boy’s survival while the world erupts into debate over the source of the boy’s power.
In the end nothing can prepare any of them for what they will find.
“A fast-paced thriller of apocalyptic dimensions. The book will move you to wonder . . .” —Charles W. Colson
A MAN CALLED BLESSED
By Bill Bright and Ted Dekker
Copyright 2002
ISBN 08499-4380-9
In this explosive sequel to Blessed Child, Rebecca Solomon leads a team deep into the 
Ethiopian desert to hunt the one man who may know the final resting place of the Ark of the Covenant. But Islamic fundamentalists fear that the Ark’s discovery will compel Israel to rebuild Solomon’s temple on the very site of their own holy mosque in Jerusalem.
They immediately dispatch Ismael, their most accomplished assassin, to pursue the same man. But the man in their sights is no ordinary man. His name is Caleb, and he is also on a quest—to find again the love he once embraced as a child.
The fate of a million souls rests in the hands of these three.
Dekker’s is fiction at its best. His books contain all the elements that make for good reading, among which are larger-than-life characters, suspense, intrigue, romance . . . . Deciding to try any one of these novels will leave you wanting more. So enjoy!
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Written by Lee L. Peoples
