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.
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