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A Lever Long Enough takes readers from a near-future reality of sabotage and treason to a first-century web of deception and deceit. Benjamin has the best team Israel could put together, but from the start nothing goes right. Sara, his second in command and the woman he loves, may just be a Christian traitor out to ruin them. Rebecca, a talented linguist, will not follow orders. And David, the archaeology expert, gets injured within their first hours in the past. And Benjamin doesn’t even realize that in the future, a mole within the military complex is out to destroy him. A Lever Long Enough approaches the question of “Did Jesus really rise from the dead?” using the facts that skeptics accept and historical documentation. Deardon crafts a gripping, edge-of-your-seat story revolving around this question. The result is a book that presents academic reasoning along with intriguing plot to make it appealing to both believers and unbelievers. The amount of research that had to have gone into this novel is staggering. Deardon maps out ancient Jerusalem in astounding detail and presents the scientific aspects in such a way that I had no trouble suspending disbelief and saying, “Well, of course they can travel back in time—look at the reasoning!” There were moments during the description of the ancient world that I found myself skimming, however, more eager to get back to the action than to visualize all the details she expounded. Still, it wove a tapestry rich in historical detail that makes for an impressive backdrop. The story is excellent and fast-paced. I had no trouble connecting with the characters and rooted them on from the first page to the last. A Lever Long Enough is a suspenseful, purposeful story that keeps the pages flying as fast as time allows. I’m particularly fond of the quote with which it begins, too. Archimedes of Syracuse: “ Give me a lever long enough, and a place to stand, and single-handed I can move the world.”
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