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Safely Home

Name: Safely Home
Author: Randy Alcorn
ISBN: 9781414348551

by Randy Alcorn

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Overview

Is this the day I die? Li Quan asks himself this question daily, knowing that he might be killed for practicing his faith. American businessman Ben Fielding has no idea what his brilliant former college roommate is facing in China. He expects his old friend has fulfilled his dream of becoming a university professor. But when they are reunited in China after twenty years, both men are shocked at what they discover about each other. Thrown together in an hour of encroaching darkness, both must make choices that will determine not only the destinies of two men, but two families, two nations, and two worlds. Tyndale House Publishers

About the Author, Randy Alcorn

Randy Alcorn is the founder of Eternal Perspective Ministries (EPM). He is a bestselling author of over forty books, including Heaven, The Treasure Principle, and the 2002 Gold Medallion winner Safely Home. Visit his website at epm.org.

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After 20 years, two college chums reconnect. Although they have pursued radically different lives half a world away from each other, they now find a common ground: their faith.

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Executive Ben Fielding hits upon a perfect plan: he will make his company millions of dollars by using Chinese labor to manufacture its electronic components. To kickstart his plan, he visits China, where he stays with college roommate Li Quan, whom he hasn't seen in over 20 years. From Li, Ben learns that his initial impressions of China from his research and from visits over the years are false, but Ben doesn't believe Li's stories of the persecution of Christians until Li is taken to jail. As Ben rediscovers Jesus through Li's faith, he discovers the truth that God does not promise an easy life on Earth, only eternal happiness after death. Part of this novel appeared as a short story in The Storytellers' Collection (LJ 9/1/00); here, its strength is magnified tenfold. Alcorn (Lord Foulgrin's Letters) lifts readers high with joy and casts them down in immeasurable sorrow as Ben and Li's story unfolds with intense emotional impact that recalls Sylvia Bambola's Refiner's Fire (LJ 6/1/00). Required for all collections. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.