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The Prophet #1
Birth
1,000 years ago…
A creature from another universe attacked Earth. Known only as The Black, it chose a Prophet to bridge the divide between its home and ours. Waging unforgiving war, the Prophet killed billions, and Earth barely survived…
Now, The Black has returned…
Sister Raylyn Brinson lives under one of the four religions that rule Earth. Raylyn’s faith in her God is ironclad, and she leads an order whose sole mandate is to ensure The Black never returns. Raylyn easily destroys most cults that arise, but rumors are swirling about a new Prophet…
One with powers not seen in a thousand years. Whispers say apostles are flocking to this new Prophet, and that he’s amassing an army which will bring forth The Black.
Facing not only her own death, but Earth’s destruction, Raylyn must first infiltrate this almighty Prophet’s flock … and then kill him.
War clouds churn on the horizon, a war where Earth must fight a new God and an all-powerful Prophet. A man willing to kill everyone to bring forth his Lord. Can humanity survive, or have we already lost?
If you like Stephen King, Orson Scott Card, or George RR Martin, you’re going to love David Beers! Buy this book, because you’re about to be rocketed into a thrill-ride unlike any you’ve ever seen!
PRAISE FOR THE PROPHET:
"The creative mind of this author never ceases to amaze me!" - Amazon Review
"This was a great start to this new series and the ending leaves you breathless for the next installment!" - Amazon Review
"Mr. Beers always paints his protagonists large, and even when extraordinary, they have an intrinsic life so often missed by other authors." - Amazon review
"The Prophet is sure to be a huge success!" - Amazon Review
**This is the first novel in a four-book series. This book ends with a cliffhanger.**
*** The final novel in this series, THE PROPHET: RESURRECTION, is available now. ***
A creature from another universe attacked Earth. Known only as The Black, it chose a Prophet to bridge the divide between its home and ours. Waging unforgiving war, the Prophet killed billions, and Earth barely survived…
Now, The Black has returned…
Sister Raylyn Brinson lives under one of the four religions that rule Earth. Raylyn’s faith in her God is ironclad, and she leads an order whose sole mandate is to ensure The Black never returns. Raylyn easily destroys most cults that arise, but rumors are swirling about a new Prophet…
One with powers not seen in a thousand years. Whispers say apostles are flocking to this new Prophet, and that he’s amassing an army which will bring forth The Black.
Facing not only her own death, but Earth’s destruction, Raylyn must first infiltrate this almighty Prophet’s flock … and then kill him.
War clouds churn on the horizon, a war where Earth must fight a new God and an all-powerful Prophet. A man willing to kill everyone to bring forth his Lord. Can humanity survive, or have we already lost?
If you like Stephen King, Orson Scott Card, or George RR Martin, you’re going to love David Beers! Buy this book, because you’re about to be rocketed into a thrill-ride unlike any you’ve ever seen!
PRAISE FOR THE PROPHET:
"The creative mind of this author never ceases to amaze me!" - Amazon Review
"This was a great start to this new series and the ending leaves you breathless for the next installment!" - Amazon Review
"Mr. Beers always paints his protagonists large, and even when extraordinary, they have an intrinsic life so often missed by other authors." - Amazon review
"The Prophet is sure to be a huge success!" - Amazon Review
**This is the first novel in a four-book series. This book ends with a cliffhanger.**
*** The final novel in this series, THE PROPHET: RESURRECTION, is available now. ***
280 pages, Kindle Edition
First published February 13, 2018
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About the author
David Beers
73 books215 followersI used to deliver pizza. I was pretty good at it, too. I mean, it's not that hard, but if I'm not going to brag, who is, right? Anyways, so I'm delivering pizza while I'm in college, and my boss has been in the pizza industry like six years. He's supposed to graduate from college this year, and I ask him, what are you going to do after college? We're all supposed to go out and conquer the world right after college, so this guy has to have some kind of plan.
He looked at me like I was delusional.
"I'm a writer, man."
Those four words changed my life more so than anything else ever spoken to me.
I'd always written, since I was twelve participating in online-wrestling forums in which you acted out your character. I wrote because it came naturally. Never once, in the entirety of my nineteen years did I think that writing could be a career though, until a Pizza Sage said those four words to me.
So what did I do? I went home and wrote a short story and immediately understood that I was the greatest writer to ever touch a keyboard. I brought it to the Pizza Sage and he told me what anyone could have told me--it was horrible. I might be dumb, probably am, but I'm also tenacious.
I spent the next seven years writing almost every day. My first novel grew to the length of 40,000 words, then I threw it away. My second novel grew to 140,000 words. I didn't throw it away, but it was rejected about 50 times by agents. My next novel ended up at around 55,000 words, which I showed to a few friends and shelved. Then I wrote Dead Religion, which is the only reason I have an author page at Amazon.
I have had four short stories published, paid and unpaid. 'Effects May Vary' won an award that was voted on by readers, which was pretty cool.
I'm currently getting my Masters in Business at the University of Georgia's Terry School of Business. I'm doing this in order to not deliver pizzas but still keep the lights on. I have a girlfriend who will soon be my fiancé, and after ten years, I imagine she's ready for that title.
I want to own a yacht.
He looked at me like I was delusional.
"I'm a writer, man."
Those four words changed my life more so than anything else ever spoken to me.
I'd always written, since I was twelve participating in online-wrestling forums in which you acted out your character. I wrote because it came naturally. Never once, in the entirety of my nineteen years did I think that writing could be a career though, until a Pizza Sage said those four words to me.
So what did I do? I went home and wrote a short story and immediately understood that I was the greatest writer to ever touch a keyboard. I brought it to the Pizza Sage and he told me what anyone could have told me--it was horrible. I might be dumb, probably am, but I'm also tenacious.
I spent the next seven years writing almost every day. My first novel grew to the length of 40,000 words, then I threw it away. My second novel grew to 140,000 words. I didn't throw it away, but it was rejected about 50 times by agents. My next novel ended up at around 55,000 words, which I showed to a few friends and shelved. Then I wrote Dead Religion, which is the only reason I have an author page at Amazon.
I have had four short stories published, paid and unpaid. 'Effects May Vary' won an award that was voted on by readers, which was pretty cool.
I'm currently getting my Masters in Business at the University of Georgia's Terry School of Business. I'm doing this in order to not deliver pizzas but still keep the lights on. I have a girlfriend who will soon be my fiancé, and after ten years, I imagine she's ready for that title.
I want to own a yacht.
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March 12, 2018
**I received an Advanced Reader Copy for my honest review**
**Not spoiler free**
First allow me to get the sour out of the way... Science Fiction is not my typical preferred genre of reading. I’m more of a “who done it murder mystery” type reader. Some aspects of science fiction can go over my head. But I’m a huge fan of David Beers and therefore I’ll read just about anything he puts out. Now having said that the beginning of The Prophet: Birth is a bit confusing. Okay, a lot confusing – it was for me at least. I understood the timeline but getting, and keeping, the four ministries straight took me a little time as well as understanding all of the technology.
Now on to the sweet… sticking with this novel despite the initial confusion paid off in dividends. David Beers is a master at taking what I can only assume begins as an obscure idea and somehow turning it into a masterful piece of fiction.
After the leaders of four ministries agree to a truce after years of war, we jump ahead approximately seven thousand years into the future. The majority of the novel deals with the True Faith, whose followers are loyal to Corinth and live underground with technology that we cannot even dream of, and the Old World, which is based on Catholicism and live above ground while rejecting the most advanced technology. There is a defector in the True Faith. Someone has been building a cult for 20 years. David, the leader, has an ability known as the sight. This allows him to connect with the Unformed. He’s also able to connect with his followers after they convert from their old faith and accept his blood – known as the Blood of the Touched. David has two problems however. The first is that there’s a defector within his cult. Someone is informing the Prevention Division that there is a cult within the True Faith. David also discovered that someone from the Old World (Nicki, a 24 year old living with her widowed father) has developed the sight as well, weakening his.
The majority of the novel centers around a few key plot points: the Prevention Division, as well as David himself, trying to identify the name of the person exposing the cult; Nicki, discovering she has the sight and then learning that the leaders of the Old World want to eliminate anyone with the sight causing her to go on the run with her father (eventually the High Priest of the True Faith discovers her existence and wants her brought to him as well); and David, trying to identify who Nicki is and bring her underground to his cult.
David was able to eventually get more of his sight back and saw that the defector had given away their location to the Prevention Division and they had to prepare for battle despite missing his second hand man, whom he’d sent to find Nicki and bring her back to him…presumably because the Unformed had said to kill her.
As this first book in the series ends in a cliffhanger, David is preparing for battle against the Prevention Division and Nicki seems to get her first taste of what her powers can do as she battles against everyone that is trying to take her while at the same time trying to save her father’s life.
The name Rachel Veritros is mentioned a handful of times throughout the novel. During the reading of this novel, I was not completely sure how she fit into all of this. I was thinking that she is the Black – or what causes the Black. We meet Rachel Veritros in book two. I’ve been able to read the opening chapters of book two and quite a bit of clarity came with it. Bring it on.
If you love science fiction, this is the series for you. If you love David Beers writing, this is the series for you. If you love cliffhangers, this is the series for you – or any series from David Beers as he has really mastered the fine technique of the cliffhanger.
His writing is very descriptive allowing the reader to picture vividly the scenes and the technology and the civilizations that the characters in this novel have created. I mean, look at the cover of this book! If only all authors had this talent.
**A few quotes from the novel**
"He’d seen pictures of her gray eyes ablaze, commanding armies against the four ministries. The gray eyes were from the Black."
"She thought the tales of the past, of the gray eyed woman named Rachel Veritros, were exaggerated."
"And the fight was here, upon them, in the man they could now see."
**Not spoiler free**
First allow me to get the sour out of the way... Science Fiction is not my typical preferred genre of reading. I’m more of a “who done it murder mystery” type reader. Some aspects of science fiction can go over my head. But I’m a huge fan of David Beers and therefore I’ll read just about anything he puts out. Now having said that the beginning of The Prophet: Birth is a bit confusing. Okay, a lot confusing – it was for me at least. I understood the timeline but getting, and keeping, the four ministries straight took me a little time as well as understanding all of the technology.
Now on to the sweet… sticking with this novel despite the initial confusion paid off in dividends. David Beers is a master at taking what I can only assume begins as an obscure idea and somehow turning it into a masterful piece of fiction.
After the leaders of four ministries agree to a truce after years of war, we jump ahead approximately seven thousand years into the future. The majority of the novel deals with the True Faith, whose followers are loyal to Corinth and live underground with technology that we cannot even dream of, and the Old World, which is based on Catholicism and live above ground while rejecting the most advanced technology. There is a defector in the True Faith. Someone has been building a cult for 20 years. David, the leader, has an ability known as the sight. This allows him to connect with the Unformed. He’s also able to connect with his followers after they convert from their old faith and accept his blood – known as the Blood of the Touched. David has two problems however. The first is that there’s a defector within his cult. Someone is informing the Prevention Division that there is a cult within the True Faith. David also discovered that someone from the Old World (Nicki, a 24 year old living with her widowed father) has developed the sight as well, weakening his.
The majority of the novel centers around a few key plot points: the Prevention Division, as well as David himself, trying to identify the name of the person exposing the cult; Nicki, discovering she has the sight and then learning that the leaders of the Old World want to eliminate anyone with the sight causing her to go on the run with her father (eventually the High Priest of the True Faith discovers her existence and wants her brought to him as well); and David, trying to identify who Nicki is and bring her underground to his cult.
David was able to eventually get more of his sight back and saw that the defector had given away their location to the Prevention Division and they had to prepare for battle despite missing his second hand man, whom he’d sent to find Nicki and bring her back to him…presumably because the Unformed had said to kill her.
As this first book in the series ends in a cliffhanger, David is preparing for battle against the Prevention Division and Nicki seems to get her first taste of what her powers can do as she battles against everyone that is trying to take her while at the same time trying to save her father’s life.
The name Rachel Veritros is mentioned a handful of times throughout the novel. During the reading of this novel, I was not completely sure how she fit into all of this. I was thinking that she is the Black – or what causes the Black. We meet Rachel Veritros in book two. I’ve been able to read the opening chapters of book two and quite a bit of clarity came with it. Bring it on.
If you love science fiction, this is the series for you. If you love David Beers writing, this is the series for you. If you love cliffhangers, this is the series for you – or any series from David Beers as he has really mastered the fine technique of the cliffhanger.
His writing is very descriptive allowing the reader to picture vividly the scenes and the technology and the civilizations that the characters in this novel have created. I mean, look at the cover of this book! If only all authors had this talent.
**A few quotes from the novel**
"He’d seen pictures of her gray eyes ablaze, commanding armies against the four ministries. The gray eyes were from the Black."
"She thought the tales of the past, of the gray eyed woman named Rachel Veritros, were exaggerated."
"And the fight was here, upon them, in the man they could now see."
February 17, 2018
"The gray could mean only one thing. The Unformed."
Wars had been devastating the world for an hundred years. Four figures, backed by their armies, met alone together to bring an end to it for all time. Each was the leader of a major religion and, between them, they came to an agreement and carved out their separate areas so that the world could begin anew. They called it the Reformation.
7,000 years later, a crack had appeared in the stability which had ensued. Whist there was little movement between the four religions, there was an occasional transfer from one to another. The different faiths had seperate life areas, attitudes to technology and their ways of worship. And a careful watch was kept for dissidents. A small group arose, connected by blood and headed by a man they called the Prophet. And he was more than a mere man because he could commune with the Unformed. And somewhere the Prophet knew, was another like him.
This is a drama filled start to a new epic serial by David Beers. Yes, there is a lot written about different religions but they are very different from those currently in existence and form the backdrop to the central characters of the story.. Mr.Beers always paints his protagonists large, and even when extraordinary, they have an intrinsic life so often missed by other authors. It is too early to tell exactly where this new series will take us but it is sure to be original, unexpected , strange and excitingly explosive but moving. The best is obviously yet to come - and I can't wait!....
Wars had been devastating the world for an hundred years. Four figures, backed by their armies, met alone together to bring an end to it for all time. Each was the leader of a major religion and, between them, they came to an agreement and carved out their separate areas so that the world could begin anew. They called it the Reformation.
7,000 years later, a crack had appeared in the stability which had ensued. Whist there was little movement between the four religions, there was an occasional transfer from one to another. The different faiths had seperate life areas, attitudes to technology and their ways of worship. And a careful watch was kept for dissidents. A small group arose, connected by blood and headed by a man they called the Prophet. And he was more than a mere man because he could commune with the Unformed. And somewhere the Prophet knew, was another like him.
This is a drama filled start to a new epic serial by David Beers. Yes, there is a lot written about different religions but they are very different from those currently in existence and form the backdrop to the central characters of the story.. Mr.Beers always paints his protagonists large, and even when extraordinary, they have an intrinsic life so often missed by other authors. It is too early to tell exactly where this new series will take us but it is sure to be original, unexpected , strange and excitingly explosive but moving. The best is obviously yet to come - and I can't wait!....
May 5, 2023
The structure of the narrative was interesting in this. We have POV characters from both ‘sides’ of the upcoming conflict. It makes it hard to decide who the ‘enemy’ is - perhaps that is the point! The Unformed appears to be a hostile force and yet ordinary, likeable people worship it and follow its plans. The Ministeries, or ruling governments/religions are all fanatical and I would personally hate to live in any of the 4 areas that have divided up this post-apocalyptic Earth. In some ways I wouldn’t mind seeing the end of them. When the Ministeries were set up after a terrible nuclear war that lasted 100 years, they decided that all cultures and religion should be eradicated - apart from their own. What is terrifyingly ironic is that the war was fought to eradicate people who were different and then these governments turned around and did the same to their own people! Peace, but at what cost? What is the Unformed’s true nature and how will the conflicts progress? Look forward to reading the rest of the series.
March 24, 2018
The Story Drags You In And Plays Like A Movie Inside Your Head! [Copied from my Review on the Amazon Kindle Store]
Where to start? I don't believe in spoilers so you don't have to worry about that at least. The characters are highly developed, the storyline is well thought out with enough details you find yourself dragged in as it plays itself out (like a movie in your head). When you turn that very last page, it's like reality slapped you in the face once you realize it's over, at least until the next book comes out. Unable to wait, you find yourself returning to page one as you begin again. With anything you've repeated more than once, you start to notice little things you somehow missed the first go around (or wonder how you didn't see it in the first place). Highly Recommended!
Where to start? I don't believe in spoilers so you don't have to worry about that at least. The characters are highly developed, the storyline is well thought out with enough details you find yourself dragged in as it plays itself out (like a movie in your head). When you turn that very last page, it's like reality slapped you in the face once you realize it's over, at least until the next book comes out. Unable to wait, you find yourself returning to page one as you begin again. With anything you've repeated more than once, you start to notice little things you somehow missed the first go around (or wonder how you didn't see it in the first place). Highly Recommended!
February 15, 2018
Right froom the first page, I was hooked and went willingly along for the ride. I'd find myself feeling overwhelmed with all the information coming at me about the different ministries, and the players within. Each question was answered as you proceed through the book.
The 4 ministries are explained well, and we're introduced to the main players of the story. We're given hints to who and what Rachel and Abby were, that leaves us wanting to know their stories as well.
Throughout the story, we're building to a clash between The Prophet and The True Faith as they hone in on the location of the compound of David's believers.
I can't wait to see what happens next!!
The 4 ministries are explained well, and we're introduced to the main players of the story. We're given hints to who and what Rachel and Abby were, that leaves us wanting to know their stories as well.
Throughout the story, we're building to a clash between The Prophet and The True Faith as they hone in on the location of the compound of David's believers.
I can't wait to see what happens next!!
November 26, 2019
Rock Solid
This is a solid beginning to a series with a lot of potential. The set up is excellent. There is a lot going on with several plot lines that intertwine. Mr Beers has created a whole universe with a 7000 year old civilization full of wars, peace treaties, governments, rebellions, religions, leaders and prophets. Science and sorcery go hand in hand in this amazing, apocalyptic world, and things are just getting started. I look forward to when the series really starts rocking as it progresses further.
This is a solid beginning to a series with a lot of potential. The set up is excellent. There is a lot going on with several plot lines that intertwine. Mr Beers has created a whole universe with a 7000 year old civilization full of wars, peace treaties, governments, rebellions, religions, leaders and prophets. Science and sorcery go hand in hand in this amazing, apocalyptic world, and things are just getting started. I look forward to when the series really starts rocking as it progresses further.
May 12, 2018
Beers Delivers Again
This book is truly excellent and I love David Beers ' books. He did a great job fleshing out the world of the future he created and the characters, plot, reasoning, and dangers of aforementioned world. It is intensely interesting and I am going to start the sequel right now. Happy Reads to all!
This book is truly excellent and I love David Beers ' books. He did a great job fleshing out the world of the future he created and the characters, plot, reasoning, and dangers of aforementioned world. It is intensely interesting and I am going to start the sequel right now. Happy Reads to all!
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