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This story is basically a mystery as Jake tries to find out who "fixed" the car that killed his two best friends in an accident - while he was left alive. Jake has to deal not only with his grief - but also the wariness as he tries to find the killer.

However, the story is enlightening because it helps us to understand how Jake, a liberal newspaper columnist thinks - and as he reflects upon the past we also come to understand how he related to Finney - his Christian friend who died. Reading some of Jake's columns (and the motivation behind them) helps us to understand that as Christians we often don't reach out to the media - and from this book we learn how we can reach out and make our voice heard. If nothing else, you'll want to read this book for the scene when Clarence, an African-American reporter tells the committee that deals with sensitivity training that being African American is NOT the same thing as being gay!

If you like mysteries, don't miss this book. But if you're buying it for a friend, I'd recommend you just go ahead and buy two - because once you start reading, you won't want to give the book away!

LIFE CHANGING BOOK
This book makes you think. It's about three men who have grown up together and are friends... there's a tragic accident killing two of them, leaving the third to look at the affects that the loss of the two friends have left... each totally different. Finney, a christian, left a wife strong in her faith, godly children, and a reputation for honor and truth. Doc left numerous difficulties, a almost broken marriage and family. Jake learns from both examples through a continually moving book, page turning events, and amazingly deep truth. Be ready to read this book... It is another great one from Randy Alcorn.

Overly simplistic, but generally true..
I came into reading "Deadline" knowing that it was Christian fiction, so I did expect the possiblity that the author could be dogmatic. Reading Alcorn's work, there is some dogma attached, which seems to indicate that he didn't think it through enough, or he let his own bias get in the way of the truth. Anyway, Alcorn paints a picture of a liberal journalist surviving a car "accident" that killed his two best friends, Dr. Greg Lowell and Finnegan "Finney" Keels. As you expect, Doc and Finney had opposite views of Christianity, and Alcorn depicts their respective fates as according to Scripture. This is the true part. The false because they are misleadly simple areas are the author's abortion scenarios(a morally complicated problem in reality) which boil down to "in every case, a mother must give birth to a living child". This ignores the complex nature of the debate, which I won't discuss here. Also, the author has a "homosexuals are free to change" approach that doesn't work out well in reality. Alcorn does get some journalistic ethos right, and I admire his honesty about that, but he paints liberals with a broadbrush(Jimmy Carter, a DEMOCRAT, is a very godly man, despite what the author may think) that is factually inaccurate. The book only musters 3 stars, because while the action is great, the story is overly preachy, and makes weak arguments.