It’s 2038 and
America is filled with high tech automation. People have implanted
devices, the SYNAPSYS, that let them communicate without cell phones,
and retrieve pictures and books. But the SYNAPSYS can also be used to
track individuals and program them. It’s also a time when
Christianity is under attack. Being a Christian or selling Christian
literature is dangerous. People have been killed and made to
disappear to keep them from spreading the Christian influence.
The story is told
from three different view points. Cheyenne Burne is a tech whiz who
works for the corporation behind the mind control of SYNAPSYS. She
isn’t happy with the way the corporation treats people so when she
receives a note that gives her directions to contact her missing
father who has converted to Christianity, she walks out of her job in
search of him. Jon Dowland is an FBI agent assigned to assassinate
influential Christians. Will Stewart is a failed bookseller. He loved
real books and sold Christian books. Now his shop is closed. A
mysterious strangers makes him think, and he joins the
movement of the Reckoner, the driving force behind Christians who are
fighting back.
This is a thriller,
but it also raises questions about the present and the way our
country is heading away from Christianity into a society where
technology rules and is used to control the way people think and to
spy on them. I found the action while fast paced in the early
chapters dragged a bit at times. However, the issues Thrasher
presents are ones that Christians should be thinking about. I hope
people will read this book. The thriller makes the reading easy, but
the real payoff is in the issues presented.
I received this book
from Waterbrook Multnomah for this review.
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