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This Present Darkness
Christian fiction
This Present Darkness
Book 1 of the Darkness series
376 pages · First published 1986
Marshall Hogan, a newspaper editor newly arrived in the small town of Ashton, and pastor Hank Busche independently begin uncovering a network of corruption and occult influence. Their investigations have a parallel supernatural dimension in which angels and demons battle over the town and the people within it. Human choices remain consequential even as spiritual forces operate beyond ordinary sight. Frank Peretti’s influential Christian supernatural thriller helped popularize modern spiritual-warfare fiction by literalizing prayer, demonic influence, and angelic conflict within the structure of a conspiracy novel.
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