After reading the first two books in the Peace Trilogy Series, I couldn’t wait to
read A Violent Light. Sometimes when you immensely enjoy the first
two books in a trilogy, you are disappointed in the final book, but A Violent Light is Jim Baton’s best
writing of all three books in the series.
Mr. Baton has been an advocate for peace between Muslims and
Christians in Indonesia for many years, and his first two books in the Peace Trilogy Series focus on that part
of the world. So I was quite surprised AND DELIGHTED when I discovered A Violent Light takes place in my little
corner of the United States—Atlanta, Georgia, and the North Georgia Mountains.
I lived in Atlanta from age 4 to 22, and spent many summers in the foothills of
the North Georgia Mountains attending Girl Scout Camp.
The story grabbed my attention from page one. I was reminded that many people in America oppose all Muslims because of radical Islam,
without recognizing that some “Christian cult groups” are as dangerous and as unacceptable
as is radical Islam. Not only that, but A
Violent Light, vividly displays what happens when “wrong thinking” takes
over.
Hate-filled propaganda will never build bridges. We need to pray for all
those who have developed that kind of carnal enmity and who are entrenched in
such diabolical thinking. Ignorance and arrogance lead to unachievable dialog.
The eye-opening plot of A
Violent Light is riveting and suspenseful. The reader will be confronted
with uncomfortable questions concerning relations between Christians and
Muslims. I was terrified at times; yet, I could not put this book down. I read
it in only two or three sittings.
I highly recommend everyone read A Violent Light if for no other reason than to bring illumination
to how God’s Word can be twisted and perverted.
Only through Jesus Christ can
true reconciliation happen. If you want a suspense-filled book that is cutting
edge in religious fiction, I highly recommend A Violent Light.
