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For horror fans, Ted Dekker’s Green fits the bill. Although Dekker is a “Christian” writer and his novel, Green, incorporates themes of salvation and good versus evil, there is more than enough gore and guts and ghouls in this novel to satisfy any Halloween appetite.
Green is the fourth in a series, and tells both the beginning and the end of the saga in a way that is reminiscent of the film, The Matrix. The main character, Thomas Hunter, travels back and forth between the present day and the earth thousands of years in the future. That world is a violent one where diseased people called Horde persecute the Albinos – whose skin has been healed. There is also another people group called the Eramites, who are half-breeds and attack the other two groups.
In Green, Thomas returns to the present day with the Books of History in order to save his son, Samuel from succumbing to the ways and thoughts of the Horde or the half-breeds. Thomas’ sister, Kara who traveled to the other world but came back to the world of the present, explains: “In the other world, words become flesh through the Books of History. And vice versa: reality becomes words recorded in the same books. The spiritual has physical manifestation. When the books came into our reality, they still had the same power to turn words into flesh. … The books are the bridge between the worlds. Literally, a bridge.”
Fighting against Thomas, Billy and Janae from the present take on sinister personalites in the world of the future, to complicate the fight between Qurong, leader of the Horde, the rebel Samuel who has sided with the Eramites, and the Albinos. From blood and animal sacrifices to graphic and bloody battles to modern science and medical labs, this story reads at a fast pace. And despite the harsh and perverted world the story reveals, love and purity drive against it. Although Thomas Hunter’s war never ends.
Green for Halloween.
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