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John Barrett, anchorman for the city's most-watched newscast, is a man suddenly lost in a town he thought he owned. His comfortable world is being jarred to the breaking point.

He's caught his producer fabricating a story and lying to cover her tracks—and she seems to be hiding something much bigger. His supposedly professional and objective colleagues have descended into a dogfight over the meaning of truth. His father's "accidental" death suddenly isn't looking so accidental. And John's estranged son, Carl, has returned to get the truth about the man behind the TV image. All of these events pale in comparison to the mysterious voices that John is hearing.

416 pages, Paperback

First published January 1,1992

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Format
416 pages, Paperback
Published
March 11, 2004 by Crossway
ISBN
9781581345261
ASIN
1581345267
Language
English

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FROM HIS WEBSITE:
With more than 12 million novels in print, Frank Peretti is nothing short of a publishing phenomenon and has been called “America's hottest Christian novelist.”

Peretti is a natural storyteller who, as a youngster in Seattle, regularly gathered the neighborhood children for animated storytelling sessions. After graduating from high school, he began playing banjo with a local bluegrass group. He and his wife were married in 1972, and Peretti soon moved from touring with a pop band to launching a modest Christian music ministry. Peretti later spent time studying English, screen writing and film at UCLA and then assisted his father in pastoring a small Assembly of God church. In 1983, he gave up his pastoring position and began taking construction jobs to make ends meet. While working at a local ski factory, he began writing This Present Darkness, the book that would catapult him into the public eye. After numerous rejections from publishers and a slow start in sales, word-of-mouth enthusiasm finally lifted This Present Darkness onto a tidal wave of interest in spiritual warfare. The book appeared on Bookstore Journal's bestseller list every month for more than eight years. Peretti's two spiritual warfare novels, This Present Darkness (1998) and Piercing the Darkness (1989), captivated readers, together selling more than 3.5 million copies. The Oath was awarded the 1996 Gold Medallion Award for best fiction.

For kids, Peretti wrote The Cooper Kids Adventure Series (Crossways and Tommy Nelson), which remains a best-selling series for children with sales exceeding 1 million copies. In August 2000, Peretti released the hilarious children's audiocassette series titled Wild and Wacky Totally True Bible Stories, reprising his role as Mr. Henry, the offbeat substitute Sunday School teacher found in two Visual Bible for Kids videos.

Peretti released his first-ever non-fiction book, The Wounded Spirit in 2000, which quickly became a best-seller. The book addresses the pain of “wounded spirits” and was written as a result of painful childhood experiences.

Frank Peretti and his wife, Barbara Jean, live in the Western U.S. In spite of sudden fame and notoriety, Frank still lives a simple, well-rounded life that includes carpentry, banjo making, sculpturing, bicycling and hiking. He is also an avid pilot.

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amaity
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April 26,2025
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Anti-abortion propaganda barely disguised as a novel. If you read the first two chapters and think wow that's a bit heavy-handed but maybe it gets better... it doesn't. The bits about news and media were interesting but the extreme bias was to the point of vileness, and the Christian evangelism is over the top. Not worth reading.
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catgirI
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April 26,2025
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I have literally read this and 'This Present Darkness' and 'Piercing the Darkness' probably 20 times each. These are my go to when I can't focus on any other book. These all inspire me to talk to God and really 'listen' to God. These have gotten me through some rough patches.
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Stelzi_UwU
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April 26,2025
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Prophet was a LONG story. And as you would suspect, it is heavily laden with religion and God. I don't personally have anything against books like this, but if I'd had an inkling I probably wouldn't have picked it up to read in the first place.

That being said, the book is a slow burn. It starts out slow, but after about 300 pages it really picks up speed, and I found myself devouring the last 200 pages to really see what happened and find out how it all ended. The only reason this book isn't getting 5 stars is because of a few things, one being the length.

This book nears 600 pages in length. I'm no novice to reading longer books, but the length on this one was almost unnecessary. The tale follows John Barrett a NewsSix anchor man. And as a result, the book repeats on the parts where the news is being aired. I know Peretti intended to make the reader feel like they were actually watching the news. But what I felt was that I was wasting my time reading 6 paragraphs of the same shit over and over.

I also sorta felt like the end of this was rushed. The entire story took PAGES to build up. And suddenly in 200 pages everything is tied up neat and tidy with a bow. However, there are a lot of things left unanswered.
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brugmansia
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April 26,2025
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There was some weird stuff, supernatural things that I believe God is fully capable of, but which he does not seem to enact in this period of time, that I could have done without. Other than that it was very interesting and aside from the technology aspects was incredibly timely despite being originally published in 1992.
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Amiable_Raven
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April 26,2025
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This is a long read, but what a GREAT book. Hard to imagine this was written 27 years ago.....it's as up to date on issues as it was then. I highly recommend this book.
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bergars
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April 26,2025
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Probably only 3.5 stars for these reasons: The repetitive parts (describing the news opening scene twice if not thrice in the book, as well as repeated phrase for the photo shoots with the news anchors); the "sermon" monologue 1/3-1/2 way through the book; things/relationships coming together too easily at points; too abrupt an ending.

Peretti's weak point in this book and other of his fiction for adults (Monster in particular stands out in my memory) is that he monologues about science or Scripture in a way that is really off-putting, even for someone who agrees with [many of] his Christian beliefs. For anyone who doesn't agree with him, I can imagine they wouldn't find Christianity compelling from those contrived speeches in Peretti's books.

Now, for the good... I enjoyed the story (even if it was unbelievable at times, much more so than This Present Darkness and its follow-up) and it helped me through some long hours at work. The plot of a hidden truth about someone in power, of how processed the "news" is, of how people are willing to turn a blind eye to problems with their pet causes when those causes hurt people, etc. was realistic enough. Most people (maybe all of us) have double standards somewhere; sometimes we're aware of them, sometimes we aren't.

I liked Carl (the MC's son) and how much he wanted to make things work with his dad, how much he wanted there to be something more to life, even if on the surface he seemed edgy. His relationship with his dad came together a little easily, but there was too much other stuff happening with the plot to delve into things like possibly feeling abandoned by his dad until he was in his twenties, etc.

The reader for the audiobook did a good job of narrating differently for each character. I wish the audiobook had been sectioned off into chapters, rather than random lines within a chapter as so-called starting points.
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muni_kawaii
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April 26,2025
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I enjoyed the read, and was refreshing see how a modern day prophet was depicted and the possible challenges that goes with it especially in how speaking the truth in the modern day is needed but a great challenge.
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enjoyzpie
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April 26,2025
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Peretti's books are hard to get into...really slow in the beginning. Although, his books always finish with an amazing ending. Same goes for Prophet.

Prophet was an interesting read. Very theological. Throughout the entire book you follow the story of a TV anchorman, a reporter, a rebel son, and families and friends dealing with death(s). All the time you are asked the question: "What is Truth?" and if a person finds Truth, do they tell the world and not care what people think...or bury it? Deals with some other interesting issues: abortion and consumerism - just to name two. Probably best for grades 11+
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