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That's the narrative setup for Assassins, the sixth and latest installment in the startlingly popular Left Behind series by co-authors Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins, two men who are doing for Christian fiction what John Grisham did for courtroom thrillers. Within three weeks of its publication, the apocalyptic action thriller was No. 2 on the New York Times best-seller list--a list that generally doesn't even count sales by the nation's Christian bookstores. So wildly anticipated was Assassins among LaHaye and Jenkins' faithful fans that at midnight on the morning of its release...
Jenkins, 49, is also a man on a mission. "We've had many unsaved people say they have accepted Christ because of reading Left Behind or one of the other books." The author of 130 books, he cut his literary teeth writing as-told-to memoirs for pro athletes such as Nolan Ryan and Walter Payton. The Left Behind books are his passion, though. Of the Rapture and Second Coming, he says, "We believe it could happen today or it could happen a thousand years from now." He resists the notion that his novels exploit today's premillennial anxiety...
DIED. LOUISE PATTERSON, 97, vigorous civil rights activist and cultural force in the Harlem Renaissance; in New York City. Patterson's myriad activities included helping her onetime boss and longtime friend Langston Hughes, left, start the Harlem Suitcase Theater and organizing a notable Marxist-friendly salon, Vanguard...
...been convicted of a single murder. This pesky legality results in some narrative discordance. For 300 pages, Blind Eye has Swango killing people right and left. Yet Stewart's conclusion contains a flurry of qualifying statements like "Swango is the first alleged serial killer in this century to have emerged in the guise of a physician." However inconvenient, writers have to obey libel laws; too many lawyers are watching. But where were the language police when Stewart chose the word guise? It means semblance, and if we know anything for sure, it is that Swango did not resemble a doctor...
...schooling is the best way to shield their kids from bullets. Ben's and Rebecca's parents did keep them close in a highly structured setting, mostly to instill Christian values. These families are from the right wing of home ed, while Katie's family is from the secular left or "unschooling" tradition whose clarion cry was "do your own thing." Tad's folks are among a host of middle-grounders who feel they are combining the best of both...