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Publisher: Water Brook Press
Release Date: September 21, 2004
ISBN: 1-57856-778-5
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Genre: Inspirational historical
Reviewed: 2004
Reviewer: Nancy Arant Williams
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King's Ransom
By Jan Beazely & Thom Lemmons

     Nineteen forty-three is not a good year to be a Jew living in Bulgaria. The Third Reich is marching, ever gaining ground in its program to eliminate God's Chosen People from Europe.

     And the plan almost works, except that the tiny country of Bulgaria is a tight-knit people group, loyal to the core, who highly esteem dear friends and neighbors, and will not stand by while such an evil plot takes place under their very noses.

     Because of one man who loves Jesus and counts it a privilege to aid his countrymen, no matter what their heritage, or how high the cost, there is just enough notice to call a halt to the terrible death march planned in secret, but revealed in the nick of time, saving every last Bulgarian Jew from certain death.

     When this reviewer picked up King's Ransom, it was with trepidation, after having seen Holocaust videos and movies as most of us have.

     No one who has ever seen the pictures can deny the harsh reality of it all. But the book isn't at all what I expected. Instead of a terrifying specter of doom, I read about love and hope, loyalty and compassion, in the hearts of those who risked everything for a cause in which they staunchly believed.

     King's Ransom is a combination historical non-fiction with a fictional romantic thread running through it. One, by the way, that you won't soon forget.

     This book made me wish that kind of love could abound today, and yet it does--in the hearts of those who love the Lord Jesus with all their hearts, souls and minds, and their fellow men as themselves. The real question raised is this--who knows what amazing feats we're capable of when completely sold out to Him?

     Beazely and Lemmons are to be congratulated on a book that models for posterity--the way things oughta be'. Way to go, guys.