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    The Martyr's Song: A Novel
    The Martyr's Song: A Novel
    The Martyr's Song: A Novel
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    The Martyr's Song: A Novel

    By Ted Dekker

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    • Faith

    • Sacrifice

    • War

    • Love

    • Hope

    • Hero's Journey

    • Power of Faith

    • Power of Music

    • Innocent Child

    • Transformative Experience

    • Corrupt Leader

    • Love Triangle

    • Chosen One

    • Secret Identity

    • Power of Love

    • War & Conflict

    • Adventure

    • Religion & Faith

    • Fear

    • Mystery

    About this ebook

    What would you die for?

    That's the question suddenly thrust upon a small band of women and children in Bosnia at the close of World War II. When a group of bitter soldiers stumble upon their peaceful village, they suddenly face an insidious evil . . . and the ultimate test.

    It is then, in the midst of chaos and pain that the Martyr's Song is first heard. It is then that the window into heaven first opens. It is then that love and beauty are shown in breathtaking reality.

    You have in your hands the story and the song that changed . . . everything.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateMay 12, 2007
    ISBN9781418525576
    The Martyr's Song: A Novel

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      The Martyr's Song - Ted Dekker

      PRAISE FOR TED DEKKER’S NOVELS

      What an emotional and thrilling story within a story! Ted’s approach allows you to see faith in a whole new light.

      —MAC POWELL, Third Day

      Ted Dekker paints a picture that will create a longing in each of us to be with our heavenly father.

      —DEBBIE DIEDERICH, National Director, 30 Hour Famine,World Vision

      "The Martyr’s Song drives home the realities of standing for your faith in a world where it isn’t always the easy decision. It is a unique story that will keep you reading from start to finish."

      —MIKE YODER, Director of Church Programs, World Vision

      "[In Obsessed] an inventive plot and fast-paced action put Dekker at the top of his game."

      —Library Journal

      [In Obsessed] author Ted Dekker brilliantly weaves two years—1944 and 1973—and two locations—the United States and Germany—into an exhilarating thriller of passion and hope.

      —Christian Retailing

      "With the release of White, and the culmination of the Circle Trilogy, Dekker has placed himself at the fore of Christian fiction. His tale is absolutely riveting, and the redemptive value at the heart of the series only makes it all the more remarkable."

      —MICHAEL JANKE, CM Central

      "One of the highlights of the year in religious fiction has been Ted Dekker’s striking color-coded spiritual trilogy. Exciting, well written, and resonant with meaning, Black, Red, and now White have won over both critics and genre readers . . . An epic journey completed with grace."

      —Editors, Barnes and Noble

      Dekker is a master of suspense and even makes room for romance.

      —Library Journal

      "Full of heroic action, deep meaning, and suspense so palpable your fingers will dig grooves into the book’s outer cover, Red magnifies the story of Black times ten, raising the stakes to epic proportions. But Ted Dekker’s biggest ace in the hole is that he understands what so many others never realize: substance and meaning can go hand-in-hand with exciting, cinematic storytelling. Red is a thrilling, daring work of fiction that not only entertains—it inspires. Why aren’t there more stories like this?"

      —ROBIN PARRISH, editor,

      Fuse Magazine, www.FuseMagazine.net

      "Black has to be the read of the year! A powerful, thought-provoking, edge-of-your-seat thriller of epic proportions that offers great depth and insight into the forces around us."

      —JOE GOODMAN, film producer, Namesake Entertainment

      "Ted Dekker’s novels deliver big with mind-blowing, plot-twisting page turners. Fair warning—this trilogy will draw you in at a breakneck pace and never let up. Cancel all plans before you start because you won’t be able to stop once you enter Black."

      —RALPH WINTER,

      Producer—X-Men, X2: X-Men United, Planet of the Apes,

      Executive Producer—StarTrek V: Final Frontier

      "Put simply: it’s a brilliant, dangerous idea. And we need more dangerous ideas . . . Dekker’s trilogy is a mythical epic, with a vast, predetermined plot and a scope of staggering proportions . . . Black is one of those books that will make you thankful that you know how to read. If you love a good story, and don’t mind suspending a little healthy disbelief, Black will keep you utterly enthralled from beginning to . . . well, cliffhanger. Red can’t get here fast enough."

      —FuseMagazine.net

      Just when I think I have Ted Dekker figured out, he hits me with the unexpected. With teasing wit, ever-lurking surprises, and adventurous new concepts, this guy could become a real vanguard in fiction.

      —FRANK PERETTI

      [With THR3E] Dekker delivers another page-turner . . . masterfully takes readers on a ride full of plot twists and turns . . . a compelling tale of cat and mouse . . . an almost perfect blend of suspense, mystery, and horror.

      —Publishers Weekly

      Ted Dekker is clearly one of the most gripping storytellers alive today. He creates plots that keep your heart pounding and palms sweating even after you’ve finished his books.

      —JEREMY REYNALDS, Syndicated Columnist

      THE MARTYR’S SONG

      OTHER BOOKS BY TED DEKKER

      Obsessed

      Black

      Red

      White

      Three

      Blink

      Thunder of Heaven

      Heaven’s Wager

      When Heaven Weeps

      with Bill Bright:

      Blessed Child

      A Man Called Blessed

      Nonfiction:

      The Slumber of Christianity

      THE

      MARTYR’S

      SONG

      TED DEKKER

      00-01_Martyr_s_Song_0005_001

      Copyright © 2005 Ted Dekker

      All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, scanning, or other—except for brief quotations in critical reviews or articles, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

      Published in Nashville, Tennessee, by WestBow Press, a division of Thomas Nelson, Inc.

      WestBow Press books may be purchased in bulk for educational, business, fundraising, or sales promotional use. For information, please e-mail [email protected].

      Publisher’s Note: This novel is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or used fictitiously.

      All characters are fictional, and any similarity to people living or dead is purely coincidental.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Dekker, Ted, 1962–

         The martyr’s song / Ted Dekker.

      p. cm.

      ISBN 0-8499-4499-6 (hard cover)

      I. Title.

      PS3554.E43M37 2005 813’.6—dc22

      2005001470

      Printed in the United States of America

      05 06 07 08 09 QW 6 5 4 3 2 1

      Dear Reader,

      The novel you're about to read is an adaptation and expansion of the story Ted first touched upon in the initial pages of the novel When Heaven Weeps. If you’ve read When Heaven Weeps, you’ll discover a familiar yet brand new story within these pages. You’ll hear for the first time the actual Martyr’s Song—a new song recorded by Todd Agnew just for this novel. I suspect you'll be overwhelmed at the power of that song and the far reaching impact this song of heaven has in Marci’s life.

      There is no order to the Martyr’s Song novels—you may read the four novels (Heaven's Wager, When Heaven Weeps, Thunder of Heaven, and The Martyr's Song) in any sequence. Each story stands alone and in no way depends on your knowledge of the others.

      Nevertheless, if there is one book to start with, it is The Martyr’s Song . . . the story that came out last but that started it all.

      Publisher

      Westbow Press

      CONTENTS

      CHAPTER ONE

      CHAPTER TWO

      CHAPTER THREE

      CHAPTER FOUR

      CHAPTER FIVE

      CHAPTER SIX

      CHAPTER SEVEN

      CHAPTER EIGHT

      CHAPTER NINE

      CHAPTER TEN

      CHAPTER ELEVEN

      EPILOGUE

      CHAPTER ONE

      ATLANTA, GEORGIA, 1964

      EVE ANGLED the old VW toward the curb alongside the high-school yard and slipped the shift stick into park. She stared directly ahead, lost in another world, nearly oblivious to the hundred or so students on the lawn to her right.

      She recited the words so firmly etched in her mind as if she had written them herself.

      "The soldiers stood unmoving on the hill’s crest, leaning on battered rifles, five dark silhouettes against a white Bosnian sky, like a row of trees razed by the war. They stared down at the small village, oblivious to the sweat caked beneath their tattered army fatigues, unaware of the dirt streaking down their faces like long black claws."

      Eve stopped. To think that it had all started so innocently. Just five tired soldiers staring at a peaceful village . . .

      Someone yelled, and she turned her head to look at the students through the passenger window.

      Wake up, old woman. You’re here now, not there.

      She was here to deliver a dozen of her rarest roses—crossbred Russian reds—but she couldn’t focus on the task. Her mind was lost in this other world, where things like roses and cars and students meant something very different than they did here.

      She was once as young as these students, fifty or sixty years ago.

      She’d fumbled through adolescence and come out reasonably sane, though that was before she learned the true meaning of life in that surreal moment when her world stopped for an hour or so. She found her sanity then, all

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