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The Micah Judgment
Hays Sutton's research unearths a virus unlike anything the world has ever seen, but before he can alert officials to the horrific danger, the samples vanish, along with all of his research. While tracking down the virus and those responsible for its theft, Hays is faced with moral and spiritual issues that he can not resolve—lying, stealing, and endangering the lives of human beings within the terrorist network are just the beginning. While he knows that such things are acceptable in a war, he is still deeply troubled by what he is forced to do. Is violence ever the right thing? Can God condone the killing of a few in order to save thousands of innocent lives? Download the Readers' Guide.
- GenresFiction
319 pages, Paperback
First published April 17, 2006
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February 28, 2020
This book needed some serious work. Primarily I'm going to take issue with the depiction of women.
There are only two of them.
The first receives a paltry page of character description before her history of being a victim of an abusive father is introduced and becomes her only defining characteristic, as this leads to her entering into an abusive romantic relationship with one of the villains. She is a plot device, nothing else, and gives no hope to victims of domestic violence.
The other female character is at once flat and boring, and idealized as being "a looker" CONSTANTLY. Every single interaction between her and any other character leads to an observation of how physically beautiful she is.
This is incredibly disappointing because (1) she has zero personality, which reflects that the author didn't care to give her one (2) this never happens in real life, making the inclusion of this utterly ridiculous. Acquaintances don't spontaneously observe how beautiful particular women are to the woman's friends without reason (3) it demonstrates that her beauty is the dominant feature worth mentioning, in a supposedly Christian book.
There is nothing for young impressionable women to aspire to in this whole novel, and nothing admirable for young men to observe and celebrate in the female characters. It would have been better to have left women out altogether frankly.
Ultimately the plot was not compelling enough to make me finish reading it for this very serious flaw. The book is 13 years old and I hope the author has developed his view of women since then.
There are only two of them.
The first receives a paltry page of character description before her history of being a victim of an abusive father is introduced and becomes her only defining characteristic, as this leads to her entering into an abusive romantic relationship with one of the villains. She is a plot device, nothing else, and gives no hope to victims of domestic violence.
The other female character is at once flat and boring, and idealized as being "a looker" CONSTANTLY. Every single interaction between her and any other character leads to an observation of how physically beautiful she is.
This is incredibly disappointing because (1) she has zero personality, which reflects that the author didn't care to give her one (2) this never happens in real life, making the inclusion of this utterly ridiculous. Acquaintances don't spontaneously observe how beautiful particular women are to the woman's friends without reason (3) it demonstrates that her beauty is the dominant feature worth mentioning, in a supposedly Christian book.
There is nothing for young impressionable women to aspire to in this whole novel, and nothing admirable for young men to observe and celebrate in the female characters. It would have been better to have left women out altogether frankly.
Ultimately the plot was not compelling enough to make me finish reading it for this very serious flaw. The book is 13 years old and I hope the author has developed his view of women since then.
August 22, 2007
This "Andromeda Strain" type book kept me on the edge of my seat!!
August 25, 2009
This was a fast pace adventure book. There were some slow parts in the middle, but I enjoyed the medical references.
July 24, 2011
A good read made even more fun because it was set in my hometown of Pittsburgh. The main characters take on an impossible task that is made possible by the unseen hand of God.
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