Synopsis:
Enter a world where nothing is what it seems. Where your closest friend could be your greatest enemy.
Kevin Parson is alone in his car when his cell phone rings. A man calling himself Slater offers a deadly ultimatum: "You have exactly three minutes to confess your sin to the world. Refuse, and the car you're driving will blow sky high." Then the phone goes dead.
Kevin panics. Who would make such a demand? What sin? Yet not sure what else to do, Kevin swerves into a parking lot and runs from his car. Just in case.
Precisely three minutes later, a massive explosion sets his world on a collision course with madness. And that's only the first move in this deadly game.
My Opinion:
Thr3e by Ted Dekker starts as a typical crime story, with a psychotic stalker choosing a young seminary student Kevin as his next victim. With each chapter the intrigue gets more sophisticated, the characters better defined, the story spiced up with elements of psychological horror. Kevin and the agents working on the case are forced to ponder the definition of sin, to understand how their own past affects their current actions, and soon they need to face not only a serial killer on the loose, but their own personal daemons as well.
The plot keeps making sudden twists, making it impossible to put the book down. What really stands out, is how solid and well thought the plot is. Even though the twists are unpredictable and show that nothing is what it seems to be, there are no contradictions and all the tiny details always match up. In this regard this novel is a true masterpiece.
I sincerely recommend this book to everyone, with a warning that once you start reading it, you may not be able to stop until the very end .
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