Word of Honor by Terri Blackstock is a fast-paced novel about Frank Harper, a Vietnam war veteran who suffered brain damage while saving others in his unit, who escapes from the mental hospital and plants a bomb in a post office of a small town which kills three people and badly injures a little boy. Frank gets Jerry, an army buddy whose life he saved, involved by asking him to drive him to the post office that day. While Jerry waits for Frank to come to meet him at a hotel later, the police arrive instead and Jerry takes Jill, the attorney staying in the adjoining room, hostage. There is quite a bit of action in Word of Honor which addresses the question of keeping your word with a romantic subplot between Jill and Dan, a firefighter afraid of commitment.
I really liked this Christian fiction book because the characters were very believable and likable. Jerry was caught between keeping a covenant he made with his army buddy and breaking it to protect his family and save himself. I think Terri Blackstock did a great job in this book at incorporating a challenge to be serious about giving our word and having a covenant relationship with God and our spouse. I recommend it to everyone!
This is actually the third book of the Newpointe 911 series but can stand on its own. Others in the series are: Private Justice, Shadow of Doubt, Trial by Fire, Line of Duty. I look forward to reading these as well! I really like that her books have clean language and a sex free.
Have you read this one? What did you think of it?
sounds interesting. I bet it's full of action and suspense. =)
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