Heaven's Wager

by Ted Dekker

Martyr's Song (1)

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Kent Anthony is a brilliant software engineer who is cashing in on a brilliant career. He's finally living the idyllic life, far from thoughts of theft and murder and other kinds of horrible criminal behavior.


He's left his past far behind . . . or so he thinks.

This story will bring you face to face with a hidden world more real than most people ever realize; a world where the unseen is more powerful than anything seen.


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I really wanted to like this book. In fact, I was -expecting- to like it, which probably makes it even worse. I've heard so much about how amazing Ted Dekker is, but... eh.

None of the characters come across as...well, anything. They're all incredibly dull, and the plot isn't good enuogh for me to not care about the flat characters. I got fifty pages in, flipped through the rest, and decided that I really couldn't take reading another three hundred pages of it.

I'm going to read some of Ted Dekker's later stuff, and I seriously hope it's better.
Heaven's Wager: so this was Ted's first book. Good start and he just gets better. Starts with tragedy and develops from there. Well worth reading; looking forward to reading next book in The Heaven Trilogy.
This goes with the Martyr's Song series and was another powerful message. Some of the plot was pretty far-fetched and the dialogue was a bit cheesy, but overall I loved the book.
Kent Anthony es un brillante ingeniero de software que está ganando mucho dinero con su carrera fenomenal. Por fin está viviendo la vida idílica, alejado de ideas de robos, asesinatos y otras clases de conductas criminales horribles. Esta historia lo traerá frente a frente con un mundo escondido más real que lo que la mayoría de la gente piensa, un mundo en el que lo invisible es más poderoso que cualquier cosa visible.
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The son of missionaries, Ted Dekker grew up in the jungles of Indonesia. He returned to the United States to attend Evangel College, graduating with a religion and philosophy major. After several years in corporate marketing, he began writing books like Heaven's Wager. Ted and his wife live in the mountains of Colorado with their four children. show more (Publisher Provided) Ted Dekker was born on October 24, 1962. After receiving a bachelor's degree from Evangel University, he entered the corporate world. After numerous successful years, he traded corporate life for a wide range of entrepreneurial pursuits that included buying and selling businesses, healthcare services, and marketing. Eventually he decided to try his hand at writing. He writes spiritual thrillers, mainstream novels, and fantasy thrillers that metaphorically explore faith. His works include Black; Red; White; Thr3e; Blink; Showdown; Saint; Skin; Heaven's Wager; Obsessed; When Heaven Weeps; Thunder of Heaven; and A Martyr's Song. He also wrote The Slumber of Christianity, a non-fiction work about misplaced values in the post-modern church. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Heaven's Wager

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Fiction and Literature, Christian Fiction, Suspense & Thriller
DDC/MDS
813.6Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in English2000-
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PS3554 .E43 .H42Language and LiteratureAmerican literatureAmerican literatureIndividual authors1961-
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