Fatal Tide

August 15, 2013
A plague of demons threatens humanity, and there's only a small team of the devout, backed up by some angels, to stop them. In a world threatened by demons and protected sometimes by angels, a young man is driven away from St. Adrian's Academy after he seeks shelter in his neighbor's house. Reese Stratton-Mallins sought refuge at football player-turned-neurochemist Tommy Gunderson's East Salem, N.Y., home after his twin, Edmond, was separated from him at school and chosen for an elite school group, the Selected, whose members are given nefarious tasks for purposes unknown. Suddenly, the car Reese is riding in is attacked. Although Reese doesn't fully understand who or what the attacker is, he does know that he's the only survivor and that he's terrified. Tommy offers Reese his protection and introduces him to allies in the fight against demons, like Tommy's girlfriend, Danielle Harris, and Linz Pharmaceuticals employee and spy Quinn McKellen. Dark forces are evidently conspiring to create mayhem, and the mysterious new drug Provivilan may be on its way to achieving its creators' goal, if only Tommy and his team can find out what that is. Though usually known for memorable characters, Wiehl and Nelson lose the trail and the reader when what should be the climax of their East Salem trilogy gets bogged down describing the rules of the supernatural world and reciting the story developments since the second installment (Darkness Rising, 2012).

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September 15, 2013

Concluding the trilogy begun with Waking Hours and continuing with Darkness Rising, retired football player Tommy Gunderson and psychiatrist Dani Harris face the growing evil centered at St. Adrian's Academy in East Salem. With the help of a 17-year-old former St. Adrian's student, Reese Stratton-Mallins, they follow a global conspiracy reaching back hundreds of years based on Hieronymus Bosch's painting The Garden of Earthly Delights and are hunted by demonic creatures determined to stop them at any cost. VERDICT Packed with conspiracies, spies, and good vs. evil, this supernatural thriller by the best-selling Wiehl (A Matter of Trust) and Christopher Award-winning Nelson (Left To Die) will be in high demand by fans, with crossover appeal for readers of Ted Dekker and Frank Peretti.

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