Gene Edwards book, "A Tale of Three Kings" is seminal work in modern Christian literature, but somehow I had missed reading it over the years. I should have read it sooner.
The story is a retelling of the life of David through a series of vignettes that center around his association with power. First it is with Saul as King of Israel, then with David King and having to deal with Absalom his son. Throughout the book, Edwards does a magnificient job of identifying the issues of the heart and the testing that goes into those issues.
The book will affect you.
I offer one criticism of the book, and it is rather central to the whole whole conceptualization that the book establishes itself on. Edwards spends great lengths of time identifying the "Saul" and "Absalom" and after spending a greater part of the book doing so then demands that the reader not use the information he has so graphically laid out in identifying the "Saul" or "Absalom" that may be in your life. While this is noble, David certainly knew these men in his life, and it is well nigh impossible and potentially deadly to NOT identify these characters in one's life.
I am under no illusions-the book is about the reader (Are you Saul, David, or Absalom?) more than the others, but Edwards presents an impractical imperative in his demand.
Nevertheless, it is a quality read on the condition of the human heart, and deserves to be on the shelf in your home.
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