Loving these movie poster like covers for Hanegraaff and Brouwer’s Last Disciple series from Tyndale House. The first two books are repackaged books from mid 2000, with a new final novel, The Last Temple.
I’m looking forward to reading all three for the first time in 2012. You? I’m guessing these will catch your eye, Nicole!!
The Last Disciple by Hank Hanegraaff & Sigmund Brouwer
First-century Rome is a perilous city as Nero stalks the political circles and huddled groups of believers. To be safe, Christians must remain invisible.
Gallus Sergius Vitas is the only man within Nero’s trusted circle willing to do what it takes to keep the empire together. He struggles to lessen Nero’s monstrosities against the people of Rome, especially the Christians. But as three Greek letters are scrawled as graffiti throughout the city, Nero’s anger grows.
As the early church begins to experience the turbulence Christ prophesied as the beginning of the last days, an enemy seeks to find John’s letter, Revelation, and destroy it. Meanwhile the early Christians must decipher it and cling to the hope it provides as they face the greatest of all persecutions.
May, 2012
The Last Sacrifice by Hank Hanegraaff & Sigmund Brouwer
Helius, Nero’s most trusted adviser, anticipates the death of his sworn enemy, the legendary warrior Gallus Sergius Vitas, scheduled to die a gruesome death in the arena. However, the badly beaten man who appears in the amphitheater is not who he seems.
Rescued by a stranger and given a mysterious scroll, Vitas is told he must decipher this letter to find the answers he needs—a letter that Helius is also determined to decipher and to keep hidden from Nero.
As Nero’s reign of terror grows, so does his circle of enemies.
May, 2012
The Last Temple by Hank Hanegraaff & Sigmund BrouwerSet in the turbulent years just before one of the most horrendous events in Jewish history, The Last Temple concludes the trilogy of The Last Disciple and The Last Sacrifice.
Vitas is reunited with his wife and retires to Alexandria, determined to live a quiet, domestic life. But he can’t avoid the debts that he owes to the men who saved him, and he becomes a key figure in the plot to rid the empire of Nero.
It sweeps him into the “year of four emperors,” when the Roman Empire is nearly destroyed, and takes him back to Jerusalem as Titus lays siege to the great city. Only then, as the prophecy of Jesus begins to unfold, does Vitas discover the true mission set before him and the astounding conspiracy behind it.
August, 2012
December 4, 2011 at 5:17 pm
Ohhhh, lovin' those covers. Stories sound good too!
December 4, 2011 at 6:10 pm
These don't look like my kind of books, js.
December 4, 2011 at 10:25 pm
Striking covers. I especially like The Last Sacrifice. However, I don't read historicals, but I can still appreciate the great art work!
December 4, 2011 at 11:55 pm
Knew they would catch your eye, Ronie 🙂
Amy ~ I know! Not your thing but at least you can appreciate there isn't a bonnet or flouncy dress in sight 😉
Nicole ~ was thinking of you in terms of cover art rather than genre!!