Heaven's Wager - Ted Dekker

Kent Anthony is a brilliant software engineer who is cashing in on a brilliant career. But on one very, very bright day everything goes very, very wrong. This fascinating story of the (almost) perfect crime in Denver is also tale of bittersweet love that is (almost) enough to save a soul. \n \nIt was an absolutely perfect day . . . until everything went absolutely perfectly wrong.\n \nKent Anthony is a brilliant software engineer who is cashing in on a brilliant career. He's finally living the idyllic life, far from thoughts of theft and murder and other kinds of horrible criminal behavior.\n \nHe's left his past far behind. Or so he thinks.\n \nIn his very first novel, New York Times bestselling author Ted Dekker delivers a fascinating story of the almost perfect crime, interwoven with a tale of bittersweet love that is almost enough to save a soul. Heaven's Wager is a story that will bring you face-to-face with a hidden world more real than most people ever realize--a world where the unseen is more powerful than anything seen.\n \nPraise for Heaven's Wager: \n \nWell, well, guess what I've found. A fiction writer with a rare knack for a compelling story, an expansive reservoir of clever ideas, and a unique dry wit that makes me laugh. --Frank Peretti, New York Times bestselling author\n \nRarely does a novel grip a reader's heart and soul the way Heaven's Wager does. Dekker is among a very small number of writers who have mastered the challenge of blending sound theology with knock-your-socks-off storytelling. --Robert Liparulo, bestselling author\n \n- Book 1 in the Heaven/Martyr's Song trilogy \n- Bonus book 1.5: The Martyr's Song \n- Book 2: When Heaven Weeps \n- Book 3: Thunder of Heaven \n- Book length: appr. 80,000 words