Missionary, The - Softcover

David Eller is an American missionary in Venezuela, married to missionary nurse, Christie. Together they rescue homeless children in Caracas. But for David, that isn't enough. The supply of homeless children is endless because of massive poverty and the oppressive policies of the Venezuelan government, led by the Hugo Chavez-like Armando Guzman. In a moment of anger, David publicly rails against the government, unaware that someone dangerous might be listening--a revolutionary looking for recruits. David falls into an unimaginable nightmare of espionage, ending in a desperate, life-or-death gamble to flee the country with his wife and son, with all the resources of a corrupt dictatorship at their heels.

WILLIAM CARMICHAEL, co-author of The Missionary, is an accomplished bestselling author of marriage, family, and parenting books. He and his wife, Nancie, are popular speakers across the United States and Canada and together have written several books, including Habits of a Healthy Home and Desperate for God. Bill is also the founder of Good Family Magazines, which publishedVirtue, Christian Parenting Today, and Parents of Teenagers magazines. Bill and Nancie have five children and seven grandchildren and reside in the Cascade Mountains of Oregon.

DAVID LAMBERT (M.F.A., University of Montana) is senior fiction editor at Howard Books and also sits on the Editorial Board of Jerry Jenkins's Christian Writers Guild. Previously he spent 18 years as an acquiring editor at Zondervan. Dave is the author of ten published books, including The Missionary, co-authored with William Carmichael, and the Gold Medallion Award winningJumper Fables, co-authored with Ken Davis. His short fiction has been published in periodicals as diverse asTQ, The Chariton Review, Sand, Virtue, Moody Magazine, Guideposts for Kids, andStory. David resides in Grand Rapids, Michigan.