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| Thunder of Heaven (Martyr's Song, Book 3) | 
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Sales Rank: 103628
Category: Book
Author: Ted Dekker
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Studio: Thomas Nelson
Manufacturer: Thomas Nelson
Label: Thomas Nelson
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Edition: Revised
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 304
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.4 x 1
ISBN: 0849945178
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780849945175
ASIN: 0849945178
Publication Date: August 30, 2005
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The world's worst fears have dawned. Nothing stands in the way of total destruction...except the love of one woman. Deep in the Amazon jungle a young American woman and the son of plantation owners fall madly in love. For Tanya and Shannon, life is a paradise most only dream about. But today paradise ends. The jungle has hatched more than idyllic love. It has also spawned insidious evil. An evil shrouded in a plot so diabolically brilliant that all of America will be brought to her knees at the hands of a few terrorists. The plan is executed to perfection. There is no way out...save an ancient woman whose dark past has lead her to a life of prayer in preparation for the unspeakable terror about to be unleashed.
Amazon.com Review
Novelist Ted Dekker spins an action-packed story of drug cartels, the CIA, and the power of God to redeem tragedy for good in his inspirational thriller Thunder of Heaven. Life in Venezuela holds nothing but good things for Tanya Vandervan, her missionary family, and her love interest, the musclebound Shannon Ritcherson, who lives with his parents on an adjoining coffee plantation. When terrorists take over the land, both families are murdered and Tanya and Shannon believe each other to be dead. Grieving her losses, Tanya moves to the United States, where she changes her identity and seeks to lay her nightmarish past to rest. Years later, Tanya is inexorably pulled back to Venezuela by visions from God, and finds that Casius, an assassin who has his own agenda for revenge, may hold the key to questions about her past and her future. Dekker relies on a fast-paced plot rather than finely crafted prose to move his story along, and those who like their novels served up with plenty of heroics and a dash of romance will find this an engaging tale. --Cindy Crosby
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 Thuder of Heaven - enjoyable August 4, 2008
Thunder of Heaven was my 1st Ted Dekker book. Overall I thought the book was very well written and the plot flowed smoothly. It was a pretty dark book that certainly drove home the point that not all things in God's plan are "peaches and cream" for those who follow him. I have two main criticisms about the story 1) I found it a little annoying that a character that was declared dead came back into the story - if you say someone is dead, they have to be dead (and the symbolic death of self to life in Christ didn't apply here either, which might have allowed for the delaration of the character to be dead. 2) I didn't like the idea of God's thunder as sounding as only soft whispers to us. Yes, God's voice is often the small quiet voice nudging at us, but if God makes some thuder, it's going to be loud! For me, the image made it sound as if God was making the loudest noises he possibly could, but such sounds were barely perceptible to us.
Enough with the critique, the book was enjoyable, and I got through it quickly, which is saying something, because it seems half the books I try to read don't seem to hold my attention and I don't even finish.
I look forward to reading another Dekker book.
-S. A. Davis, author of Iman's Isle.
 Great Book!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! April 7, 2007
Words don't do Ted Dekker justice I love all his books! This was one of those books once you pick up it is so hard to put down!!
Entertaining and Thought Provoking December 10, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have several Ted Dekker novels and they are all entertaining and thought provoking. 'Thunder Of Heaven' is no exception.
Dekker has blended an action plot involving terrorists with a nuclear device, romance, and spiritual themes. I am not one who enjoys romance, but the author does it in a way that is not obnoxious or overdone.
The action rolls along at a good pace and keeps the reader's interest throughout.
There was one error that should have been avoided. This may be somewhat of a spoiler so read further at your own risk. When one of the characters is imprisoned for a terrorist plot, he is located in the 'Canyon City Correctional Facility'. A participant in international terrorism would not be incarcerated in a local or state facility. It is a federal crime so he would be in a federal prison. With the type of crime and skill set/threat level possessed by this person, he would likely be housed in a United States Penitentiary (USP). This may not be a huge issue, but I think that technical accuracy is important in a good novel.
In spite of that one issue, I would recommend this book as well as any others I have read by Dekker. He is a highly skilled author who keeps one's attention.
Changed My View of Christian Novels December 9, 2005
Allow me to be honest: I resisted reading Christian fiction for a long time because I thought it would be, well, boring. I'm a Christian, but sermons are for the pulpit, not the printed page. Or so I thought. Thunder of Heaven completely sideswiped me with a great opening, a fast pace, and an interesting cast of characters who pop with realism. My favorite is Casius, a CIA assassin. The book follows him and the daughter of two married missionaries as they grapple with the slaughter of their parents and try to stop a terrorist attack. The jungle setting is a cool stage for this story to play out. The only time I realized I wasn't reading a thriller shaped by any of the great writers of our time is when the author dropped in a spiritual insight or two-and even those were interesting. I highly recommend this book.
2nd place out of 3 December 6, 2005
Thunder of Heaven is better than Heaven's Wager yet not as great as When Heaven Weeps. Now of course this is all relative to your kind of story. Thunder of Heaven is a shorter story that has more action than the previous 2. It takes place in a jungle and that setting alone creates a great plot. I don't know if Ted intended a twist in it or not but after the first attack on the homes I knew who was who in the future. The surprise wasn't as big as say Thr3e was...but again, Ted himself has said that he writes different kinds of stories each time. He's almost like the book version of M. Night Shaymalan(sp?)
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