As you all know, I am a nerd. I like math, science, and reading books. Recently, I just read a new book by my favorite author, Ted Dekker. It's called The Priest's Graveyard.
This book was about a man named Danny who grew up in Bosnia. In his youth, there was a war going on and during that time, soldiers came into his house and killed his sisters and mother. After, he avenged their deaths and decided to become a priest and take the law into his own hands when officials let criminals slip away. He moved to the US and did exactly that. He killed people who committed crimes, but got away with it because they had political or some other kind of power.
The book is also about a young woman named Renee. She is a heroine addicted with an abusive boyfriends. One night she is Running away from him because she fears that her life is in danger. While she's running she gets hit by a car. The man in the car sees that she is hurt, and that people are trying to kill her. He saves her by getting her away, and taking her back to his house. There he gets a doctor to visit her. It takes her weeks to recover but when she does, he gives her the offer of living with him because she has no where else to go. Then, they supposedly fall in love.
The man who saves Renee, Lamont Myers, has OCD. In order for her to live there, he does have a few "harmless" rules she has to follow. The walls in his house are made of glass, and everything is perfectly clean. She has to wear gloves so she doesn't get her prints on the walls, and slippers so her feet never touch the floor. They live like this for a year. One day, Lamont comes home and tells Renee he is worried that his boss may kill him. He was a very powerful man, with a lot of political power. Supposedly, Lamont found out something about his boss, and was afraid that because he found out, his boss would kill him.
Later that week, Lamont went on a business trip, and left Renee home. This was a usually thing, and he said he would be back by Thursday. When Thursday came, Lamont never came home. Renee waited for 5 days, but he never showed up. Eventually, some people who worked for Lamont's boss came to investigate his house. Renee thought it was so that they could kill her. She took some money, stowed away in one of their cars, and went to a hotel. From that point on, she decided she would to whatever it took to avenge Lamont's death. She later met up with the priest I mentioned earlier. He decided to help her investigate Lamont's death, and maybe help her avenge it.
Okay. That is my not very short summary of the book I just read. Every part of me is itching to give away the ending, but I wont. I hope someone who reads this blog will read the book.
