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Red: The Heroic Rescue
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Red: The Heroic Rescue
Book 2 of the The Circle series
381 pages · First published 2004
Thomas Hunter continues moving between two realities: a modern world devastated by a lethal virus and a future world whose spiritual conflict reflects the stakes of his original life. The struggle against the disease becomes inseparable from the war between the followers of Elyon and the forces threatening the colored forests. Thomas must attempt a rescue whose consequences reach both worlds. Ted Dekker’s second Circle novel combines apocalyptic thriller, fantasy, Christian allegory, and parallel realities in a story where heroic action is measured by whom Thomas is willing to risk himself to save.
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