AN EYE FOR AN EYE by IRENE HANNON

AN EYE FOR AN EYE by IRENE HANNON is well worth reading for the exciting, suspenseful, story and for the really good Christian message. The Author is so good at making the Christian message an integral part of her stories, and, as we follow her characters' lives, we learn so much that is applicable in our own walk with the Lord.
Emily Lawson and Mark Sanders meet unexpectedly in the park after twenty years. They had been madly in love as teenagers. Their meeting is disrupted when a sniper shoots at them, injuring Emily. Mark is on loan to the local FBI from the Quantico Hostage Rescue Team, trying to get over an incident that has left him very shaken. Emily is still suffering the effects of losing her fire fighter husband five years earlier, and is afraid of falling in love again, especially with someone in a dangerous line of work.
Emily is a clinical psychologist with a very full schedule, helping people on a radio show and at a women's shelter in her free time. She really lives her faith.
It is uncertain which of the two were targeted - had Emily enraged an abusive husband by suggesting his wife should leave him, or was this pay back from the family of the teenager that Mark had shot at a convenience store robbery?
The novel is fast paced and hard to put down. Compassion and forgiveness as opposed to revenge and hatred, faith instead of fear, and love instead of hatred, loneliness and loyal friendship, are some of the subjects that are dealt with in the novel. Also we see the danger of wrongly interpreting the Word of God and demanding "an eye for an eye"! I know this book is the second novel in the Heroes of Quantico series, but I have read it as a stand alone. It is really a good read and I can highly recommend it.


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