"A novel"--Cover.

Tanya Vandervan, daughter of missionaries, and the rather mysterious "Shannon," son of a Danish planter, grow up in a kind of Eden in the jungles of Venezuela in Dekker's Thunder of Heaven. Their childhood is brutally ended when both sets of parents are killed, the casualties of a complicated, rather bizarre CIA plot against drug runners. Almost accidentally, both Tanya and Shannon survive, each thinking the other is dead. The reader encounters them eight years later. Tanya is nearly finished with medical school, but she is suddenly beset by the awful memories she's suppressed, and with a new set of visions about a plot to blow up the world. God compels her to return to Venezuela. Meanwhile, Shannon, now a rogue CIA agent, is also drawn to Venezuela, but for reasons that are not quite clear. Dekker's thriller is uneven but a real page-turner--his jungle survival scenes read like the best of David Morrell, and his description of a small nuclear explosion off the coast of Florida is upsettingly precise.

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