Review – The Warriors

Mark Andrew Olsen, Christy award finalist, continues his exciting new series in book two. He again mixes spiritual genealogy and the supernatural with exotic locales, unforgettable characters, and high-octane situations. This time the adventurous duo, Abby Sherman and Dylan Hatfield, cross the globe in search of a mysterious key.

Abby’s youth, beauty, and joyfulness belie her birthright as a Watcher, an ancient spiritual intercessory group, with giftings of visionary intercession and prayer. When Abby discerns the call from Sister Rulaz, known as the “sentinel for Jerusalem,” she boards the plane to Israel with dread. Rulaz shares Abby’s spiritual discernment and collective visions of imminent mass destruction. Abby knows it’s a call to war fought in the spiritual realm, but with real consequences.

Abby had just returned from another conflict where she met Dylan Hatfield, a Delta force agent. Assigned to kill her by the Scythian warriors, he instead became her friend, even though the group paid fifteen million dollars for the job. Just as that conflict tore open long-held secrets about spiritual strongholds and principalities that crossed locations and time, so would this journey with its roots in the ancient past.

The time-A.D. 1353, the Tower of Constance in Provence, France; the man-the last survivor from the once proud, most feared military authority-the Knights of the Temple of Solomon. Bruised, bloody, and beaten, the condemned man carved the final letters into the stone pried from the cold, dungeon floor. The dry, hard beak he’d stolen from the seagull’s carcass became his pen.

Three hundred years later, the Tower became a prison for women who refused to renounce their Protestant faith. Prisoner Marie Durand encouraged prisoners’ defiance, and carved RESIST into the Tower’s floor with her bloodied, teenage fingernails. Two mysterious inscriptions, one hidden, one not, became whispered legendary superstitions until 2001, when they provided the key to unlock the plan of pending devastation on United States soil, or life in the United States as it’s now known would be destroyed.

It will take the combined forces of Abby’s belief in God, her courage and spirituality, joined with Dylan’s resourcefulness and God’s grace to elude the planned demolition.

This faith-based thriller won’t disappoint, but only add to Olson’s growing fan base. Although The Warrior’s is a sequel to The Watcher’s, it’s also a stand-alone title. However, don’t miss out on either one. Olson writes page-turning tension beyond compare.