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(3.5) | Keine | When a mysterious stranger appears to be healing New York City's sick merely through touch, a media frenzy catapults him to superstar status. When he then claims to be able to heal the entire world of hunger, injustice, and suffering just as easily as he seems able to heal a sick child, thousands rally to his cause, desperate for a savior to snatch the world from the edge of darkness. But not everyone is eager to see the world changed. Driven by their insatiable greed for money and power, corporate America, organized crime, even the mighty White House will stop at nothing to ensure the world stays just the way it is: under their control - poverty, disease, wars and all. Hurled into a raging storm of bullets, doubles crosses, car chases, and conspiracies, a small group of loyal followers helps the stranger fight for his vision to become a reality. But what vision is that? ¿ Can he truly heal? ¿ Does he really want to end suffering? ¿ Or, with immeasurable wealth the prize, is this the greatest confidence trick in history, masterminded to swindle billions from a world desperate for a savior to save it? On a roller coaster adventure crammed with mystery, shocking revelations, and pulse-pounding danger, the group slowly realizes there's nowhere to hide from the fate that awaits them and which will shake the entire globe. Dare you read `What if¿?¿ ¿ It¿ll tear your world apart!… (mehr) |
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Keine ▾Buchbeschreibungen When a mysterious stranger appears to be healing New York City's sick merely through touch, a media frenzy catapults him to superstar status. When he then claims to be able to heal the entire world of hunger, injustice, and suffering just as easily as he seems able to heal a sick child, thousands rally to his cause, desperate for a savior to snatch the world from the edge of darkness. But not everyone is eager to see the world changed. Driven by their insatiable greed for money and power, corporate America, organized crime, even the mighty White House will stop at nothing to ensure the world stays just the way it is: under their control - poverty, disease, wars and all. Hurled into a raging storm of bullets, doubles crosses, car chases, and conspiracies, a small group of loyal followers helps the stranger fight for his vision to become a reality. But what vision is that? ¿ Can he truly heal? ¿ Does he really want to end suffering? ¿ Or, with immeasurable wealth the prize, is this the greatest confidence trick in history, masterminded to swindle billions from a world desperate for a savior to save it? On a roller coaster adventure crammed with mystery, shocking revelations, and pulse-pounding danger, the group slowly realizes there's nowhere to hide from the fate that awaits them and which will shake the entire globe. Dare you read `What if¿?¿ ¿ It¿ll tear your world apart! ▾Bibliotheksbeschreibungen Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. ▾Beschreibung von LibraryThing-Mitgliedern
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When one skeptical New York reporter survives a terrible automobile accident despite losing so much blood that she could not have possibly lived through it, she decides to find the man who reportedly molested her in the street as she was bleeding to death. And when she walks out of the hospital just hours after doctors gave up on saving her life, that is exactly what she does.
It soon becomes obvious to Mary that the man was, in fact, healing her injuries, not molesting her, and she suddenly realizes that she has been handed every reporter’s dream story. She comes to understand that she has become part of something much bigger than just a career-making newspaper story, however, and finds herself falling in love with the man and his mission, a turn of events that places her in more danger than she ever could have imagined.
A man like John, a healer and a visionary who wants to change the world forever, is a threat to some powerful people who like things just the way they are. John has a plan, after all, that would end poverty everywhere in the world and allow mankind to live the Utopian lifestyle that has been dreamed of for centuries. His very existence is a threat to those on top of the heap who do not want to lose their power and economic dominance. When the governments of countries such as China and Russia demand that the U.S. put a muzzle on John, he literally becomes a threat to world peace, and there are plenty of people suddenly willing to do whatever it takes to shut him up.
What If? is quite a ride and it has one of the strangest endings I have encountered in a long time. It is a provocative look at what might happen if a true miracle worker were to suddenly appear in the modern day world, a hopeful, but sad, story about the most likely “what if” scenario that would develop from such an event.
Stephen N. Lee has written an unusual thriller that will have the reader quickly turning pages almost all the way through it. My only quarrel with Lee’s storytelling is the excessive number of pages he used on a rather anticlimactic court trial toward the end of the book. That section, in fact, stalled the book’s momentum to such an extent that it became somewhat of a chore to get through it. But that is a small complaint when compared to the pace maintained in the rest of the book.
WARNING: Do not succumb to the temptation to read the book’s ending first because this is one time that I can guarantee that you will regret doing that.
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