I was inveighed upon to read Ted Dekker by a couple of friends who declared his work to be "stunning" and a host of other adjectives. I picked up his book "Adam," and read the story of a the search for Eve, a serial killer that doesn't believe in God.
Dekker's detective novel falls short on both the medical side as well as the intent (I think...) of showing the interaction of good and evil. For instance, Dekker's Eve doesn't believe in God yet is clearly possessed by a demonic force. That, to me, is a failure of good theology.
Essentially, the book comes down to the search of a serial killer and the pathos that the profiler goes thru during the search.
I suppose that if Dekker is the inheritor of the genre that Peretti mastered with "This Present Darkness," et al, we are left bereft as readers to use this as intake of the genre. The comparisons between Peretti and Dekker are unavoidable...
As you can see, I was disappointed in this book as CHRISTIAN novel. If it were a secular one, I would declare it to be better than passable reading. However, it does not get a passing grade in my book due to its errors in theologic concept.
If you like the Steven King-meets-a-good-guy kind of book, this may be right up your alley, to give Dekker his due.
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