Last Light
A gripping, high-stakes survival thriller
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- 8,99 €
Description de l’éditeur
In this Y2K-inspired survival thriller from New York Times bestselling author Terri Blackstock, a global outage exposes both the darkness of human desperation and the unexpected light of faith, hope, and community.
". . . [Last Light] is in league with first-rate adventure fiction and bodes well for the series to come." --Publishers Weekly
Birmingham, Alabama, has lost all power. Its streets are jammed with cars that won't start and its airport is engulfed in flames from burning planes. All communications--cell phones, computers, even radios--are silent. Every home and business is dark. Is it a natural disaster, a terrorist attack, or something far worse?
In the face of a crisis that sweeps an entire high-tech planet back to a time before electricity, the Branning family faces a choice. Will they hoard their possessions in order to survive--or trust God to provide as they share their resources with those around them? Yesterday's world is gone. Family and community are all that remain. And the outage is revealing the worst in some.
Desperation can be dangerous--especially when a killer lives among them.
Fast-paced, thought-provoking, and rich with emotional and spiritual tension, Last Light launches the bestselling Restoration Series with a story that feels both urgent and deeply human.
Continue the journey with the Restoration Series: Night Light, True Light, and Dawn's Light. Includes a note from the author and discussion questions for book clubs.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The first book in Blackstock's Restoration series literally begins with a bang: airplanes fall out of the sky in the opening paragraphs, at which point the novel's protagonists and readers become swept up in a stunning set of circumstances, the import of which slowly sink in as the novel briskly moves forward. Unlike the deluge of dramatic depictions of the end times, in which Christians disappear and the world reacts, this story focuses on a natural phenomenon-albeit one that most of the characters believe is a message from God-that profoundly alters human society. Blackstock's main characters, the affluent Bannings, who live in suburban Birmingham, Alabama, initially react to this disaster by putting themselves first, for fear that any other strategy would endanger their lives. Soon, however, challenged by the Sermon on the Mount, they begin reaching out generously to neighbors. Their nascent attempts at a communal approach to life will likely be picked up in future novels in this series. Blackstock's subplots are less compelling than her vision of an Electromagnetic Pulse-damaged world; particularly contrived is the story's murder mystery, which plays out predictably. Still, at its best moments, this novel is in league with first-rate adventure fiction and bodes well for the series to come.
