Warriors (Covert Missions Book #2) , livre ebook

Baker Publishing Group - Andrew Olsen Mark

Découvre YouScribe en t'inscrivant gratuitement

Je m'inscris

Obtenez un accès à la bibliothèque pour le consulter en ligne
En savoir plus

176 pages

English

Vous pourrez modifier la taille du texte de cet ouvrage

Obtenez un accès à la bibliothèque pour le consulter en ligne
En savoir plus

A propos
Informations
Extrait

Description

Young Abby Sherman has been summoned to Israel, where a Watcher, the Sentinel of Jerusalem, lies dying. In her last breaths, the woman tells Abby of an ancient document prophesying humanity's full-scale entry into the ongoing conflict between the armies of heaven and fallen angels.When Abby issues an Internet prayer warning, she unwillingly sets in motion a series of events that will uncover one of America's hottest secrets. Here's a story to enthrall, educate, and energize Christians into participating in real-life strategic prayer--a novel featuring exotic international locales, chilling scenes of evil in action, multiple-character plot lines, and a clash against real-life spiritual "principalities and powers" carrying eternal consequences.

Informations

Publié par	Baker Publishing Group
Date de parution	01 mars 2009
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781441208392
Langue	English

Informations légales : prix de location à la page 0,0202€. Cette information est donnée uniquement à titre indicatif conformément à la législation en vigueur.

Extrait

Praise for MARK ANDREW OLSEN and The Watchers
Olsen delivers an entertaining thriller likely to be enjoyed especially by fans of the spiritual warfare genre.
-Publishers Weekly
Mark Andrew Olsen blasts open the door into the world of the supernatural with this gripping and suspenseful novel. Readers won t be able to put this book down as Olsen weaves an exciting story filled with rich history, wonderful imagery, and intense characters. characters.
-Romantic Times
From California to the jungles of Nigeria to the holy city of Jerusalem, The Watchers is a wild ride of action-packed suspense. Not since Frank Peretti s This Present Darkness and Ted Dekker s Martyr s Song series have I read a book that so compellingly weaves the spiritual world-visions of heaven and the battle between angels and demons-into the physical.
-Sheryl Root, ArmchairInterviews.com
Olsen manages to include glimpses into the spirit world without sounding like he s imitating past works, and occasionally providing truly moving moments of insight. Recommended. moments of insight. Recommended.
-Tim Frankovich, ChristianFictionReview.com
Mark Andrew Olsen, author of The Assignment , brings readers another thrilling spiritual adventure in The Watchers . Filled with suspense and intrigue, this book will draw readers in and keep them on the edge of their seats until the very end. Olsen is a gifted writer whose creativity can make the reader feel as if he or she is witness to a real-life drama instead of a novel. I thoroughly enjoyed The Watchers . It is well written and gives a glimpse into the spiritual dimension that we don t often think about.
-Jill Hart, Blogcritics.org
Tightly crafted chapters loaded with action, crisp dialogue, and surrounded by well-drawn characters made The Watchers a powerful novel, a story that would easily translate onto the silver screen. Though a hard book to put down, when I did have to set it aside, I could not stop thinking about the characters or the imminent danger awaiting them. A genuine page-turner, for lack of a better phrase. If you like mysteries, suspense, spiritually uplifting tales, you will not want to miss The Watchers .
-Phillip Tomasso III, IntheLibraryReviews.net
The Watchers is a fast-paced work of fiction. I enjoyed this supernatural saga and look forward to more from this author. to more from this author.
-Tracey Bonsell, ChristianBookPreviews.com
THE W ARRIORS
Books by Mark Andrew Olsen
_________________
Hadassah: One Night With the King 1
The Hadassah Covenant: A Queen s Legacy 1
The Road Home 1
Rescued 2
The Assignment
The Watchers
The Warriors
1 with Tommy Tenney 2 with John Bevere
MARK ANDREW OLSEN
THE W ARRIORS
The Warriors Copyright 2008 Mark Andrew Olsen
Cover design by Lookout Design, Inc.
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means-electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise-without the prior written permission of the publisher. The only exception is brief quotations in printed reviews.
Unless otherwise identified, Scripture quotations are from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION . Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan Publishing House. All rights reserved.
Some Scripture quotations are from the King James Version of the Bible.
Published by Bethany House Publishers 11400 Hampshire Avenue South Bloomington, Minnesota 55438
Bethany House Publishers is a division of Baker Publishing Group, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Printed in the United States of America
ISBN 978-0-7642-0657-3
Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows:
Olsen, Mark Andrew. The warriors / Mark Andrew Olsen. p. cm. ISBN 978-0-7642-0274-2 (alk. paper) 1. Spiritual warfare-Fiction. 2. Special forces (Military science)-Fiction. 3. Secret societies-Fiction. 4. Prayer-Fiction. I. Title.
PS3615.L73W36 2008 813 .6-dc22
2007043450
To our beloved Emma-Le Olsen, born in your mother s heart, more beautiful and precious to us than all the Pearls of China
MARK ANDREW OLSEN, acclaimed author of the supernatural thriller The Watchers, also collaborated on bestsellers -Hadassah, The Hadassah Covenant, The Road Home, and Rescued . Mark grew up in France, the son of missionaries, and is a Professional Writing graduate of Baylor University. He and his wife, Connie, live in Colorado Springs with their three children.
THE W ARRIORS
Our hope in God is greater than our desire to please men; beware how you draw down upon yourselves this anger by persecuting us; for remember that, if God so wills it, all the forces you have assembled against us will nothing avail.
-Entreaty of Waldensian leaders John Campo and John Besiderio to a papal legate leading an army of religious cleansing, 1488, La Torre, Italy
A bitter thing, a lamentable thing, a thing horrible to think of and terrible to hear, a detestable crime, an execrable evil, an abominable act, a repulsive disgrace, a thing almost inhuman, indeed alien to all humanity, has, thanks to the reports of several trustworthy persons, reached our ears, smiting us grievously and causing us to tremble with the utmost horrors.
-The Mandate of Maubuisson, pronounced against the Knights Templar, 1307, Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris
Contents
CHAPTER 1
CHAPTER 2
CHAPTER 3
CHAPTER 4
CHAPTER 5
CHAPTER 6
CHAPTER 7
CHAPTER 8
CHAPTER 9
CHAPTER 10
CHAPTER 11
CHAPTER 12
CHAPTER 13
CHAPTER 14
CHAPTER 15
CHAPTER 16
CHAPTER 17
CHAPTER 18
CHAPTER 19
CHAPTER 20
CHAPTER 21
CHAPTER 22
CHAPTER 23
CHAPTER 24
CHAPTER 25
CHAPTER 26
CHAPTER 27
CHAPTER 28
CHAPTER 29
CHAPTER 30
CHAPTER 31
CHAPTER 32
CHAPTER 33
CHAPTER 34
CHAPTER 35
CHAPTER 36
CHAPTER 37
CHAPTER 38
CHAPTER 39
CHAPTER 40
CHAPTER 41
CHAPTER 42
CHAPTER 43
CHAPTER 44
CHAPTER 45
CHAPTER 46
CHAPTER 47
CHAPTER 48
CHAPTER 49
CHAPTER 50
CHAPTER 51
CHAPTER 52
CHAPTER 53
CHAPTER 54
CHAPTER 55
CHAPTER 56
CHAPTER 57
CHAPTER 58
CHAPTER 59
CHAPTER 60
CHAPTER 61
CHAPTER 62
CHAPTER 63
CHAPTER 64
CHAPTER 65
EPILOGUE
CHAPTER _ 01
TOWER OF CONSTANCE, AIGUES - MORTES, PROVENCE, FRANCE - A.D. 1353
The condemned lay hunched over the dungeon floor to carve his last words, using a beak pried from the carcass of a seagull. He breathed deeply and bent even lower, blowing dust off the letters, when something caused him to freeze.
He cocked his head to one side. Slowly closed his eyes. Then exhaled the breath, slow and trembling.
It was not a new noise that had alarmed him, but rather a new quiet. The ringing of hammer blows outside had ceased. He nodded faintly, absorbing the terrible truth.
The carpentiers had finished his execution stake.
He glanced over at his three brethren huddled in the cell s far corner and staring darkly at the stone floor. None had uttered a word since hearing their friends death howls the day before. This morning their gazes were hollow with fear, for fresh sounds of doom seemed everywhere. From outside their window slits floated the growing clamor of a mob surrounding the gallows. From the guards room below he could hear the clanging of swords and the curses of returning soldiers.
The hour of their death was upon them.
He sighed and fought back a misting in his eyes. The men s wasted appearance would never betray it, but they were the last known members of the once proudest and most feared military order in the world: The Poor Fellow Soldiers of Christ, Knights of the Temple of Solomon.
Knights Templar.
How far the mighty had fallen! Only a century ago, his forebears had sailed as heroes in the king s own ships from the quays of this very town, Aigues-Mortes, as crusaders sworn to the recapture of Jerusalem. The king himself, along with his cardinals, had stood by, tossing them tearful waves and bids of Godspeed. The same offices that today condemned their order as devil worshipers and deviants, slaughtered its members and hunted down all who refused to flee until only these four doomed men remained.
He shook his head and willed himself not to sully his final moments with bitter thoughts.
Reading again what he had written, he caressed the words with his fingertips, then bowed his head for a long moment. Thankfully, the limestone had proven softer to pierce than he had thought possible, allowing him to inscribe the words of this most important message over the course of the last three days. He carefully turned the stone over, concealing his work, then returned it to its place in the floor with a dull thud. The soldiers would notice nothing amiss.
As to who would ever read his words and when, he would leave that task up to Almighty God. He who had inspired them would surely bring a reader in due time.
Forty minutes later, the carver of the message did indeed burn alongside his three fellow Templars, staring calm and upright through the flames even as his brethren writhed and lofted stomach-churning howls.
Some of those watching testified that, during his horrific final moments, the man looked heavenward with the beatific smile of a saint. A few of those near the front fell to their knees and began crossing themselves in repentance of their earlier taunts.
Finally it was over. Within the hour, farmers had carted off the charred remains and fed them to their swine. Peasants looted the pyre for kindling. By evening, coastal winds had chased off the remaining ashes and swept them into the nearby marshes of the Camargue. Three days later, the dead man s odd demeanor had been exhausted as conversation fodder. A week later it was forgotten.
Years passed, too numerous to describe. Prisoners came and went, as did many more such executions. Through it all, the dead man s hidden message went undiscovered. Yet somehow, against all logic and human reason, an awareness of its existence seemed