The Warriors by Mark Andrew Olsen

This week, the

Christian Fiction Blog Alliance

is introducing

The Warriors

(Bethany House April 1, 2008)

by

Mark Andrew Olsen

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

MARK ANDREW OLSEN whose novel The Assignment was a Christy Award finalist, also collaborated on bestsellers Hadassah (now the major motion picture: One Night With the King), The Hadassah Covenant, and Rescued. His last novel was the supernatural thriller The Watchers.

The son of missionaries to France, Mark is a Professional Writing graduate of Baylor University. He and his wife, Connie, live in Colorado Springs with their three children.

ABOUT THE BOOK:

A failed recon mission deep in the tunnels of Afghanistan has provoked a demonic onslaught that had been brewing for centuries. The mission's sole survivor is reformed black ops assassin Dylan Hatfield, and he once again teams up with Abby Sherman, now at the helm of the Watchers, an ancient spiritual force. Uncovering and preventing a secret wave of death whispered across cyberspace and threatening to be unleash against civilization will require another level of spiritual power and expertise--the Warriors.


Journeying across the Alps of Europe through the multilayered history of warfare in the unseen world, Dylan and Abby uncover an age-old stone engraving that rouses the church's Warriors to action, placing them dead center in one of the fiercest spiritual battles of their time!

And once again they are reminded: This is all part of a vast and perpetual war, a war beyond all human conflicts, one that has engulfed heaven and earth since before the dawn of history....

Abby Sherman is headed back to Israel, where a Watcher, the Sentinel of Jerusalem, lies dying. In her last breaths the old woman tells Abby of an ancient document prophesying humanity's full-scale entry into the ongoing conflict between armies of heaven and fallen angels.

Dylan Hatfield has decided to answer a summons from his old boss and join a secret operation, its mission to reconnoiter the Afghani tunnel complex from which Osama bin Laden escaped in 2001. What he discovers sears his very soul and likely will end his life.

Abby learns of the peril facing Dylan, and she sends out a call for intercession on his behalf. Her frantic email message sets in motion a series of harrowing events, propelling the two on a new mission and quest--one where the stakes are the lives of millions!

The Warriors is packed with high-octane action, featuring exotic international locales, with characters in a clash against spiritual "principalities and powers" with eternal consequences, The Warriors is a story that will enthrall, enlighten, and engage its readers.

If that piques your interest, you can read the first chapter HERE

"Olsen, one of the better writers in this subgenre, delivers powerful,
action-packed plots that delve into mystical paranormal worlds."
~Library Journal, Feb. 2008

"Olsen delivers an entertaining thriller likely to be enjoyed especially by
fans of the spiritual warfare genre."~PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

My review: Mark Andrew Olsen has quickly become one of my top favorite writers, after reading The Watchers and The Warriors. I am an avid reader of anything I can find dealing with the supernatural and spiritual warfare. I started years ago with Frank Peretti's This Present Darkness and Piercing the Darkness. I believe he ranks write up there with Frank Peretti. Her definitely has an ablility to write spine-tingling supernatural thrillers. You will not want to put this book down! I often wish that I had sight into the spiritual things. But then when reading Abby's story about how painful it is to see some of the things she sees, I don't really want to see that. The Warriors is a book of a huge spirtual battle, one that is fought for everyone's souls, and the very lives of American's. She sees angels that help people, and she sees the evil, the demons that try to destroy everything good. It is amazing how she and her mother can see in the future and even when being interrogated see things that make the questioners sure they are telling the truth. Abby and Dylan have to find the "Summons to War". The one thing that will unite every believer in Christ. The thing that will get Christians praying to stop the coming wave of death, to go to war on their knees in prayer, and in the physical world. She mut call all belivers to war, to physically fight the Arabs that are attacking America, and to fight spiritually against the demonic stronghold that seeks to destroy. This is a thrilling must-read for any fans of supernatural and spirital warfare!

The book link is: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/076420274X