The Killer Within

by Mike Taliaferro, Chris Costello

African missionary, Mike Taliaferro recounts true stories of African diseases and their devastation to the body and compares them to the effects of sin on the human soul to help you hate sin and flee from it.

128 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 1997

Reviews

[Marcus Goncalves · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing book! It depicts effectively the consequences of sin and how it destroys the spiritual body and causes us to die spiritually. Worth reading it!

[James]

This was a book about sin. Each chapter discussed different deadly diseases commonly encountered in Africa and how they parallel different kinds of sin in our lives. Overall a good concept, but the book wasn't well written and also not very deep. The descriptions of the diseases were frightening but not real enough for me - they were very distant to me - and although I got the basic message of the book (that sin is serious and it can destroy our lives from the inside, and we have to be careful to protect against it), it wasn't mind blowing. a quick read.

[Lazarus · Rating 3 out of 5]

I liked the stories and tales highlighting Taliaferro’s experiences and accounts of the experiences of others. He enumerates various diseases commonly faced in Africa, describing the contractions, symptoms, and cures, that is, if there is one. Taliaferro then draws parallels between those fleshy diseases and the spiritual disease of sin. This is where his arguments started to lose some of it’s steam and I, therefore, started to lose interest. Not because it was an untruth, but more because it was flat. The best way I can describe it, is that Taliaferro created the parallels instead of letting the parallels create themselves. But all in all a short interesting read. (1977)