Book One of The Watchmen
Nine days after her father was taken from a mission compound in northern Nigeria, Alicia Bennett takes matters into her own hands — making decisions that could send her to prison.
The channels that were supposed to bring him home had already decided not to try. She would find her way to a retired Tier One soldier — two years gone from the fight, searching out his purpose in God.
Initially reluctant, the soldier is eventually unable to ignore the direction being laid out in front of him.
What transpires is a collection of broken people, reassembled by the hands of an all-powerful, Almighty God.
They will need every hard thing they have ever learned — but they are going to need much, much more.
The Watchman is a Christian action thriller — the first book of a series called The Watchmen, about former tier-one operators who go where nobody else can go, for people nobody else will reach.
It is not a book where faith is scenery. The men in it pray on the page, and they are not always answered the way they’d like. It is also not a book that flinches from what these men do for a living. The tension between those two things is the whole reason it exists: soldiers who have every earthly reason to trust their own hands, deciding, under pressure, to trust Someone else.
This is a rescue novel about a terror kidnapping, and it is honest about what that costs. It contains sustained combat and its aftermath, the death of a child, grief, and one extended sequence involving a suicidal man with a gun in his hand. None of it is there for the thrill of it, but it is there.
Faith is central and explicit throughout — prayer, scripture, conversion, and a good deal of argument with God.
One email when the book is done and there's somewhere to get it. One when the next one is coming. Nothing else, ever.