This week, we feature a children’s adventure about a battle against an evil rat and an inspiring play about Romans taking on power-hungry Caesar.
Fiction A Navy SEAL’s Revenge
‘The Terminal List’
By Jack Carr
This novel launched the story of a more lethal type of Jack Ryan character. Navy SEAL James Reece discovers the American government had his entire team terminated. He creates his own list to terminate. Rarely has a debut novel garnered such attention and acclaim.
Atria/Emily Bestler Books, 2018, 416 pages The Story of a Sinner-Saint
‘The Power and the Glory’
By Graham Greene
In revolutionary, anti-clerical Mexico, a nameless “whiskey priest” is on the run from the authorities. A man given to human frailty—he once fathered a child—the priest is torn by his instinct for survival and his compassion for the suffering poor around him. His enemy, a police lieutenant who believes in an earthly paradise, finally catches the priest when he drops his guard to hear the confession of a dying murderer. This masterpiece about faith, pity, and mercy is as relevant now as when it was written….