Everyone knows the right answer to the question, “Would you die for your faith?” If you want to start a good conversation, try the question James David Jordan poses in his novel Forsaken: “Would you let someone you love die for your faith?”
Pose the question to a scrappy, yet broken, woman warrior (OK, ex-Secret Service agent) and a likeable televangelist with an ignoble past and you have an excellent premise for a Christian thriller, which ends a little less than halfway through the book, devolving into a stifled and ultimately creepy Christian romance mystery. Go out guns blazing in a disorienting firefight against Muslim terrorists, and you get three underdeveloped books in one.
B&H Publishing Group, October 2008, 328 pp., $14.99
