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Violent Sands
THE SCROLL WILL DESTROY...
For generations, the copper scroll has remained buried, concealing the treasure it protects and the prophecy it contains. Now that secret is about to be unleashed. In the right hands, the scroll could bring about ancient Israel's freedom from Roman occupation, but used improperly, it could destroy her.
EVERYTHING THE MAN KNOWS...
After watching Roman soldiers murder his father and pillage his homeland, Barabbas, a warrior zealot and sworn protector of the scroll, has become a broken man, physically and emotionally. His quest for vengeance and Roman blood, his love for a peace loving woman, and his commitment to the mysterious scroll pull him in vastly different directions.
AND HE WILL BE KILLED...
Death and betrayal loom around every corner as Barabbas searches for a truth that he has yet to fully understand--the force that drives him forward and ultimately requests the ultimate sacrifice to be made by a man.
OR REMADE.
For generations, the copper scroll has remained buried, concealing the treasure it protects and the prophecy it contains. Now that secret is about to be unleashed. In the right hands, the scroll could bring about ancient Israel's freedom from Roman occupation, but used improperly, it could destroy her.
EVERYTHING THE MAN KNOWS...
After watching Roman soldiers murder his father and pillage his homeland, Barabbas, a warrior zealot and sworn protector of the scroll, has become a broken man, physically and emotionally. His quest for vengeance and Roman blood, his love for a peace loving woman, and his commitment to the mysterious scroll pull him in vastly different directions.
AND HE WILL BE KILLED...
Death and betrayal loom around every corner as Barabbas searches for a truth that he has yet to fully understand--the force that drives him forward and ultimately requests the ultimate sacrifice to be made by a man.
OR REMADE.
"Violent Sands by Sean Young is a rare novel that captures the imagination and transports you to another time, another way of life and makes it real. This is an impeccably researched historical thriller featuring a hero whose violent life as a Jewish zealot, fighting the Roman empire, is changed forever when he's charged with a mission that could destroy or free the nation of Israel...and, in truth, the entire world. Absolutely a must read!" -- Jeremy Robinson, bestselling author of The Didymus Contingency and Raising The Past
387 pages, Paperback
First published November 12, 2006
About the author
Sean Young
4 books4 followersLibrarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.
Sean Young blends his life-long love of novels with a strong Christian world-view to produce gripping thrillers anchored in a Biblical core. A thirst for adventure, and deep personal faith create his unique brand of action-packed page turners that make the reader's pulse race, while quietly shining the good news of the gospel and remaining free of profanity and offensive sexual scenes that have become so prevalent in modern fiction.
His first novel was a seven hundred page Historical Suspense Thriller that took three years to write. This was first published first in the USA, and then in Europe where it was translated into Spanish.
Sean lives with his wife and two children in Surrey, England.
Sean Young blends his life-long love of novels with a strong Christian world-view to produce gripping thrillers anchored in a Biblical core. A thirst for adventure, and deep personal faith create his unique brand of action-packed page turners that make the reader's pulse race, while quietly shining the good news of the gospel and remaining free of profanity and offensive sexual scenes that have become so prevalent in modern fiction.
His first novel was a seven hundred page Historical Suspense Thriller that took three years to write. This was first published first in the USA, and then in Europe where it was translated into Spanish.
Sean lives with his wife and two children in Surrey, England.
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October 26, 2020
A good story idea and mostly fun to read. There were a few too many unbelievable events; such as continually out smarting and out fighting well trained Roman soldiers. - so you don’t want to apply too much logic as you are reading.
June 10, 2015
Un libro decepcionante. Una novela histórica (sin profundizar en la historia) que quiere ser de aventuras sin llegar a serlo, romántica de forma poco creíble, misterio que no llega a serlo. Vamos, un querer y no poder.
El protagonista y demás personajes se pasan tres cuartas partes del libro buscando un pergamino secreto, que oculta un gran tesoro y sobre todo una profecía para el pueblo judío. Pues fue encontrarlo y perder toda importancia la susodicha profecía. Aparte de que realmente tampoco crea un interés por saberlo, la verdad.
La historia entre Barrabás y la chica (ni me acuerdo como se llama) es un bodrio (perdón por la palabra). No hay historia y punto.
De aventuras, bueno, Barrabas se pasa el libro escapando (será muy buen guerrero, pero le capturan cada dos por tres), y los romanos obsesionados con cogerle. Pero ahí queda. Tampoco desarrolla gran cosa.
Ha querido abarcar tanto que se ha quedado en nada.
El protagonista y demás personajes se pasan tres cuartas partes del libro buscando un pergamino secreto, que oculta un gran tesoro y sobre todo una profecía para el pueblo judío. Pues fue encontrarlo y perder toda importancia la susodicha profecía. Aparte de que realmente tampoco crea un interés por saberlo, la verdad.
La historia entre Barrabás y la chica (ni me acuerdo como se llama) es un bodrio (perdón por la palabra). No hay historia y punto.
De aventuras, bueno, Barrabas se pasa el libro escapando (será muy buen guerrero, pero le capturan cada dos por tres), y los romanos obsesionados con cogerle. Pero ahí queda. Tampoco desarrolla gran cosa.
Ha querido abarcar tanto que se ha quedado en nada.
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