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Title: Stands above mere fiction
Review: If you understand what the author is doing (I got there about mid point on this novel) you cannot help but to find inspiration in Dekker's mastery of fiction. Heaven's Wager is a great story the gains steam as it goes along and ends with a bang, but its the truth behind the story that lingers and that, to me, is its real beauty. You can hardly compare this with a Grisham novel because it reaches far beyond simple entertainment to a treatment that which is beyond. In fact, if you have no sensitivity to that which is beyond, you probably won't find this novel as gripping as I did.The fiction out on the street tends to blur together at times -- everyone retelling the same old stories with new characters. It's so refreshing to read something that engages on a different level. I'm halfway through Dekker's newest novel which he co-authored with Bill Bright. It's even better. Thank God for new writers.
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