One of my hobbies is reading. While I read both fiction and non-fiction my real love is for a good fiction novel. Until recently my favorite authors have been the likes of James Patterson, Dean Koontz, and Stephen King. Obviously I’m a big fan of suspense and thriller novels.

Every now and ten I’ve tried a Christian fiction author but haven’t found one that really knocked my socks off (quite the opposite really). I just couldn’t find a guy (or gal) that could write well and tell a good story.

Until now!

I just finished my second book by my new favorite (and Christian) author: Ted Dekker. The book I just finished is the first in a Trilogy entitled Black. His writing is edgy and original…I couldn’t put down either book (the first one I read was Skin…all I can say about that book is WOW, got my attention!). Here is how his website describes Black:

Enter an adrenaline-laced epic where dreams and reality collide.

Fleeing his assailants through deserted alleyways, Thomas Hunter narrowly escapes to the roof of a building. Then a silent bullet from the night clips his head…and his world goes black.

From the blackness comes an amazing reality of another world-a world where evil is contained. A world where Thomas Hunter is in love with a beautiful woman. Then he remembers the dream of the chase as he reaches to touch the blood on his head.

Where does the dream end and reality begin? Every time he falls asleep in one world, he awakes in the other-both facing catastrophic disaster. Thomas is being pushed beyond his limits…even beyond the limits of space and time.

Black is an incredible story of evil and rescue, betrayal and love, pursuit and death, and a terrorist’s threat unlike anything the human race has ever known. Some say the world hangs in the balance of every choice we make. Now the fate of two worlds hangs in the balance of one man’s choice.

I am greatly impressed and plan on reading everything he’s written. Not sure how I missed this guy, but I obviously highly recommend him if you’re into this sort of read.