BLACK By Ted Dekker

This Book is the first in a trilogy Ted Dekker wrote way back in 2004
It starts of in Switzerland at a dinning table with two men named Valborg Svensson and Carlos Missirian. They are discussing their plan to hold the world hostage by developing a deadly virus and controlling the only vaccine against it. Svensson tells Carlos to go to Bangkok to get a man named Thomas Hunter who has been having a dream about just such a virus.
Then the book switches gears to Thomas Hunter. We enter his life as he is walking down the street in Denver when suddenly he is shot at and begins running for his life. Tom fights back when two men corner him and he escapes to hide on a rooftop. Suddenly something hits him and he is falling. He looses consciousness and when he wakes up, he is in another world with a strange black forest all around him. There is a man named Bill he's never seen before, trying to get him to drink from a strange looking puddle. He doesn't know anything for sure, except he shouldn't drink the water, no matter what. Bill walks off into the forest and then Tom feels himself being drawn towards the water, just as he's about to drink, razor sharp shale slices through his skin .He looks up and sees thousands of bats hanging in the trees. (creepy!) He passes out again and, bam he's back in Denver. Tom heads for the apartment he shares with his sister Kara. She bandages him up and he lays down to rest and once asleep, bam he is back in the black forest, running for his life. He sees a white bridge ahead, with green land on the other side of it and runs for it.
The next time he sleeps in Denver, it happens again, only this time he meets strange white talking birds and a girl named Rachelle, who tell him that hi memories of Denver are dreams of the histories.The world he is dreaming of was destroyed by a virus long ago. Rachelle believes he must have amnesia from hitting his head. As the story goes on, Tom decides this all must be happening to him so that he can stop the virus from happening and save the world. But he is not sure which world is more real to him. He would much rather stay with Rachelle and the peaceful world he has found. But of course, his conscience wont let him. Tom Keeps trying to get people to listen to, and believe him, even going so far as kidnapping a young scientist to stop her from releasing her vaccine to the world market.
I really enjoyed the world Ted Dekker created and loved the connection to Elyon (their name for God ) the beings had in the future. I thought this part was a brilliant way of paralleling the love of God for mankind and the great romance a person has with God.
I give it a 7\10 only because I hated the end, but I will have to see what WHITE and RED have to offer, the overall score could go a lot higher, oh yea, now it's more than a trilogy there's GREEN too!

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Black (Circle)

Other Books By Ted Dekker
Green (The Circle, Book 0: The Beginning and the End)
Elyon (The Lost Books)
Lunatic (The Lost Books)
Chosen (The Lost Books, Book 1) (The Books of History Chronicles)
Complete Circle Series: Hardcover Box Set