Fiction Addict

Genre: Suspense

Publisher: Tyndale

Publication Date: August 2009

Reviewed by Josh Olds

A coded email. A mysterious phone call. A sinister plot. A powerful cult. James Pence wastes no time throwing the reader into an intense and fast-paced story of redemption and hope. Thomas Kent had lost it all—all that really mattered anyway. His own family had been killed and he had been powerless to stop it. He had little in life to live for until one phone message changed his life. Save…the…children.

Thomas embarks on a mission that will pit him against a powerful cult whose sins are threatened to be unveiled by the children he must now protect. And there’s no choosing not to protect the children. A trained killer is already beating down the door of his cabin.

He can’t trust anybody, only God, but he and God haven’t been on speaking terms since the accident that stole his family away. Now he’s going to have to put his life back together while on the run, and in the end, Thomas must rely on the God who seemed to forsake him.

A powerful story of hope, Blind Sight takes what could have sounded ridiculous or cliché—a cult attempting to take over the world and killing those who stand in its way—and makes it sound all too plausible. From Thomas’s redemption from his broken past, to the new life brought from escaping the cult, the action rarely lets up, resulting in a great and heartfelt story.

Perhaps even more powerful is the true story connected with this fictional novel. On March 1, 2008, armed men broke into Terry Caffey’s home and killed his wife and two young sons. Terry was shot and left for dead, as the men set fire to the house. Terry’s only surviving family member, his daughter, would later be implicated in the crime. In one night, Terry had lost his entire family.

Six weeks later, as Terry stood looking at the remains of his house and thinking about the loss of his family, he noticed a scrap of paper on a nearby tree. That scrap of paper happened to be a page of Blind Sight. The page that survived recounted Thomas’s struggle with God as he too had lost his family. That single portion of a page, the lone remnant from a destroyed home, was enough for Terry to look through his pain. Terry now travels the country giving his testimony, carrying that scrap of paper with him. His story is recounted in a non-fiction title, Terror by Night.

Whether in real life or in story, this novel is a powerful testament to the sovereignty and tender mercies of God.

Review copy provided by Tyndale House Publishers.