Deadline (69 page)
Authors: Randy Alcorn
Tags: #Christian, #General, #Fiction, #Journalists, #Religious, #Oregon
Not one of those 204 cases prepared me for that next murder, where someone sinister hid in the shadows of a violated house, gazing out at me through a broken window. It was the most radical and unconventional and baffling case I’ve ever worked.
If that’s not enough, my investigation threatened to end the lives of some people I really cared about.
And, ultimately, that’s exactly what it did.
D
EADLINE
When tragedy strikes those closest to him, award-winning journalist Jake Woods must draw upon all his resources to uncover the truth about their suspicious accident. Soon he finds himself swept up in a murder investigation that is both complex and dangerous. Unaware of the threat to his own life, Jake is drawn in deeper and deeper as he desperately searches for the answers to the immediate mystery at hand and—ultimately—the deeper meaning of his own existence.
D
OMINION
When two senseless killings hit close to home, columnist Clarence Abernathy seeks revenge for the murders—and, ultimately, answers to his own struggles regarding race and faith. After being dragged into the world of inner-city gangs and racial conflict, Clarence is encouraged by fellow columnist Jake Woods (from the bestseller
Deadline
) to forge an unlikely partnership with a redneck homicide detective. Soon the two find themselves facing the powers of darkness that threaten the dominion of earth, while unseen eyes watch from above.
L
ORD
F
OULGRIN’S
L
ETTERS
Foulgrin, a high-ranking demon, instructs his subordinate on how to deceive and destroy Jordan Fletcher and his family. It’s like placing a bugging device in hell’s war room, where we overhear our enemies assessing our weaknesses and strategizing attacks.
Lord Foulgrin’s Letters
is a
Screwtape Letters
for our day, equally fascinating yet distinctly different—a dramatic story with earthly characters, setting, and plot. A creative, insightful, and biblical depiction of spiritual warfare, this book will guide readers to Christ-honoring counterstrategies for putting on the full armor of God and resisting the devil.
T
HE
I
SHBANE
C
ONSPIRACY
Jillian is picture perfect on the outside, but terrified of getting hurt on the inside. Brittany is a tough girl who trusts almost no one. Ian is a successful athlete who dabbles in the occult. And Rob is a former gangbanger who struggles with guilt, pain, and a newfound faith in God. These four college students will face the ultimate battle between good and evil in a single year. As spiritual warfare rages around them, a dramatic demonic correspondence takes place. Readers can eavesdrop on the enemy, and learn to stave off their own defeat, by reading
The Ishbane Conspiracy.
This book is a work of fiction. With the exception of recognized historical figures, the characters in this novel are fictional. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
DEADLINE
©1994 by Eternal Perspective Ministries
published by Multnomah Books
A division of Random House, Inc.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Alcorn, Randy C.
Deadline/by Randy Alcorn.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-307-56262-3
1. Journalists—Oregon—Fiction. I. Title
PS3551.L292D43 1994 94-20108
813′.54—dc20 CIP
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