"Boneman's Daughters" by Ted Dekker

There is just something about a Ted Dekker book.   Whether it’s the intense psychological challenges with which the man writes, or the thrill ride of suspense one can expect, or the spiritual context suffused through the plots for greater substance to the overall theme, there is just something about a Ted Dekker book that elicits a response in a reader of the book’s worth - simply from his name alone. 

Here, Dekker offers a father who fights to rescue his daughter from a serial killer as the main plot.  Yet, being Ted Dekker, he takes that one basic premise a step further.  He creates an estranged relationship between father and daughter, where the father only discovers his daughter’s worth following psychological torture by a terrorist who blames America for the death of his own children.

Did this torture turn Ryan Evans into the Boneman?  The FBI believes so, but Dekker never lets you know until the last possible moment, and then it becomes a matter of saving the daughter, Bethany.  Is she destined to become Boneman’s Daughter or the daughter of Ryan Evans?  In true Dekker fashion, both paths call out to the reader to accept them as the truth.