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Matt Cooper is a true international man of mystery. A private security executive, his adrenaline-junkie days consist of last-minute first-class overseas flights, Hollywood parties with a live-in actress girlfriend, and direct calls from top CIA brass. But the jet-set lifestyle hardly matters once Matt meets Mr. Roberts, an old broken-down millionaire, an uncommon Christian who coaxes Cooper into traveling with him to Israel. Through the strange man's incredible connections, Matt goes behind the curtain of Middle East terrorism, witnessing firsthand the untold ravages of holy war.
Author/counselor Christine Dorn has thought of everything. Along with the baby basics, Getting to Know You includes colorful illustrations, display areas for mementos, a how-to section on journal writing, and guidelines that ensure this book will be a child's keepsake in later years.
Matt Cooper doesn’t need anything in his life. He has a thriving business, expansive house, talented daughter, and a beautiful woman named Stevie who has helped him heal after his wife’s death. Yet when a Colonel Sanders look-alike invites him to Israel, Matt finds himself inexplicably drawn to go. George Roberts may be a religious humanitarian, but he’s also a businessman with connections that will ease Matt’s work of establishing a company branch in Israel.
Despite Matt’s expertise with security, Stevie and Nikki are understandably uneasy about his trip to a land where suicide bombers are the norm. But what Matt finds there changes his life forever.
Meanwhile, terrorists are plotting another attack against the U.S. Eleven briefcase nuclear bombs from the former Soviet Union are missing, and millions of American lives are at stake. Matt volunteers the resources of his organization to ferret out the terrorists and find the nukes, before it’s too late.
This novel offers a fascinating perspective on terrorists by anti-terrorism expert Phil Little. The book begins slowly, but suspense builds as it progresses. With Brad Whittington’s addition to the writing team, I expected some Fred-like humor and characterization, but was disappointed. Character motivations and emotions were clearly shown, but I found myself unable to closely identify with any of the people in the novel. While all the right elements were included, the book doesn’t flow well, and many parts of it seemed clichéd. If you enjoy plot-driven novels and can make it past the first hundred pages to where the action starts to pick up, you may want to give it a try. – Katie Hart, Christian Book Previews.com
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Reviewed by Michelle (Arizona), December 30, 2006 When I first received this book in the mail and read the title I thought, "What kind of story is this?" Honestly, the title didn't appeal to me, but the front cover was interesting and so was the description on the back. So I started to read. The first chapter had a lot of narration, which usually makes a book boring, but it seemed necessary to the setting and to get you into the mind frame of the story itself.
Have you seen The Peacemaker (1997) starring George Clooney and Nicole Kidman? This book reminds me of that kind of action, especially with the pulse-racing countdown to find the nukes before they detonated. Continual intrigue, cliff-hanger plot points, a mysterious "mole" (as they called the insider working with the terrorists), and adventure up the wazoo made this story worthwhile reading for me. What a great ride! One of the best points, IMHO, was the fact that I didn't figure out who the proverbial bad guy/girl was until the end when the person was revealed. That was so cool! Talk about well-done red herrings. This is a perfect example of that technique.
I love it when a book makes me feel smarter about a subject when I'm done reading it. Plus, there were excellent characterizations all around. Nikki, the daughter, was VERY well done as was Stevie, the actress. I found the spiritual arc to be very effective and frankly, if there had been no arc, it would've taken away from the story, IMHO.
In this story not everyone "finds Jesus" because that isn't the real world, but the defenses people erected against Christians were very realistically portrayed. Write a review of Hell in a Briefcase
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