The vast Pantanal region of Brazil is the “Horeb” for the unlikely anti-hero in The Testament, but the awakening and progressive persuasion that there is more to Christian faith than a set of creeds, and that in some mysterious way simply believing in Jesus Christ makes sense in a senseless world, comes through loud and clear. Our fast-paced, distraction-cluttered lives too often eclipse the “still, small voice” that Elijah rediscovered in a cave at Horeb (1 Kings 19). Grisham’s gift, which he himself calls a “God-given ability,” will see to that.īeyond this, however, you will enter a world where faith becomes real in a way you may have never experienced. I won’t commit the cardinal sin of revealing the plot-and will let Larry King’s assessment that “it has the best first 50 pages for pure storytelling impact that I have ever read” suffice for me. Grisham, who has called himself “a Christian writing popular fiction…I’m not writing Christian literature,” has included overt conversions to Christ in previous novels- The Street Lawyer and The Chamber-but I found the story in The Testament more compelling. Perhaps The Testament will follow suit, but if so, I suspect Hollywood will have a tougher time dealing with its content. Many of his previous titles have become blockbuster movies- The Pelican Brief, The Firm, and The Rainmaker immediately come to mind. This is yet another in a long line of novels by Grisham, who has become a fixture at the top of the New York Times bestseller list.
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