Word: peretti
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Successful religious novels draw on the same thing that Michael Crichton and Tom Clancy thrive on: relentless plotting, no matter how far-fetched. The king of the genre is Frank Peretti, author of four best sellers. His latest, The Oath (Word; 550 pages; $23.99), which has sold 500,000 copies, is a backwoods potboiler that shoots off volleys of suspense. Dismembered bodies start turning up in a remote valley in the Pacific Northwest (the Northwest is a favorite Evangelical site). The local law blames the killings on a deranged bear, but that's too easy. Better to look...
...Peretti, who has sold 6.4 million books, is a former bluegrass musician who lived in a trailer before moving to a log house near Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. Like most successful Christian novelists, he practices what he preaches as a devout Evangelical. "Part of being a Christian is that you share your faith," he says. "My writing is message centered." However, Peretti has brought his genre closer to mainstream pop fiction. For The Oath, Word, his new publisher, brought in "a New York editor," and the effort shows in the density and pacing of the plot...