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Protected by the dark of night, Jaimie Piper runs. But is anywhere safe when Evil is hunting you?
She’s just a twelve year-old girl, bumped around between foster homes and relegated to school classes for challenged kids, those lagging in their test scores or with behavioral issues. But her real problem is that she can sense something the other kids can’t—something dark. Something compelling her to run for her life.
All Crockett Grey wants is to mark the anniversary of his daughter’s death alone.
But when his student Jaimie comes to him, terrified, her need for protection collides with his grief, and a tangled web of bizarre events sends them both spiraling toward destruction.
Crockett’s one hope of getting his life back is to uncover the mysterious secrets of Jaimie’s past and her strange gift. It isn’t long before his discoveries lead him to a darker conspiracy, secrets guarded by the highest seat of power in the world—the Vatican.
- Sales Rank: #2530559 in Books
- Brand: WaterBrook Press
- Published on: 2011-06-21
- Released on: 2011-06-21
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.24" h x .80" w x 5.48" l, .65 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 308 pages
- Great product!
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Praise for The Canary List and Sigmund Brouwer
“Speculative Christian fiction is rare, and Brouwer does it with the skills of an episodic storyteller that make a reader wonder when the movie is coming out.”
—Publisher’s Weekly
“Recommended for readers of visionary and science fiction and for larger Christian fiction collections.”
—Library Journal
“Sigmund Brouwer is one of my favorite authors. His versatility and the ease that he switches between genres and styles never cease to amaze me.”
—Melissa Willis, TheChristianManifesto.com
About the Author
Sigmund Brouwer is the bestselling author of Broken Angel and nineteen other novels, with close to three million books in print. His work has appeared in Time, The Tennessean, on Good Morning America and other media. Sigmund is married to recording artist Cindy Morgan and has two young daughters.
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Evil hunted her.
It had driven her toward the beach, where, protected by the dark of night, Jaimie Piper crept toward the front window of a small bungalow a few blocks off the ocean in Santa Monica.
She knew it was wrong, sneaking up on her schoolteacher like this, but she couldn’t help herself. She was afraid—really afraid—and she wanted his help. First she had to make sure he was alone. If he was with someone else, she wouldn’t bother him.
The sound of night bugs was louder than the traffic on the main boulevard that intersected this quiet street. It was June, and the air was warm and had the tangy smell of ocean. The grass was cool and wet. She felt the dew soaking through her canvas high-top Converse sneakers. Jaimie wasn’t one to worry about fashion. She just liked the way the sneakers felt and looked. Okay, maybe she liked them too because none of the other kids her age wore them. Jaimie was twelve. Slender and tall, she had long, fine hair that she tended to wear in a ponytail with a ball cap. If she let it hang loose, it softened her appearance to the point where others viewed her as girlie, something she hated.
The alternative was to cut it herself, because her foster parents didn’t like wasting money by sending her to a beauty salon, but cutting it herself would just remind her that she was nothing but a foster kid, so she just let it grow. And
wore Converse sneakers that looked anything but girlie.
Not only was it wrong to be sneaking up on her teacher’s house, but it was wrong even to know where he lived. Jaimie knew that. But his wallet had been open on his desk once, with his driver’s license showing behind a clear plastic window, and she’d read it upside down while she was talking to him and had memorized his address.
Although this was the first time she’d stopped, she had ridden her bike past his house plenty of times, wondering what it would be like if she lived in the little house near the beach.
It wasn’t the house that drew her. It was dreaming about what it would be like to have a family, and it seemed the perfect house for a family with a mom and a dad and a couple of girls.
A real family. A house that they had lived in for years and years, with a yard and a couple of dogs. Beagles. She loved beagles.
Her mom would be a little pudgy but someone who laughed all the time. Jaimie didn’t like the moms she saw who were cool and hip and trying to outdo their daughters in skinniness and tight-fitting jeans.
Her dad would not have perfect hair and drive a BMW. Jaimie didn’t have friends, because Jaimie wasn’t a friend kind of person, but she knew girls at school with dads like that, and those girls didn’t seem happy. If Jaimie had a dad, he’d be the kind of guy who went to barbers, not stylists, and had hair that was always a couple of weeks past needing a barber, who wore jeans and didn’t tuck in his shirt and always dropped everything to listen to whatever story his girl wanted to tell him.
A dad like Mr. G, her teacher. He drove an old Jeep, the kind with canvas top and roll bars. Sometimes she’d see a surfboard strapped to the top of it, canvas top gone. Mr. G had that kind of surfer-dude look, with the long hair and a long nose bent a little. Not perfect kind of handsome, but a face you still looked at twice. Some of the girls in her class had a crush on him.
Not Jaimie.
She just wished she could have a dad like him and a house like the house he lived in. Sometimes when she was really lonely, she would ride her bike in the neighborhood, pretending it was her home and that when she got there, she’d be able to wheel up the sidewalk and drop her bike on the grass and leave it there, because if it really was her family, no one would get upset about little things like that.
It wasn’t that she just had a good feeling about him. It was that Jaimie knew Mr. G could be trusted. Jaimie had a sense about people, a sense that sometimes haunted her.
Like earlier tonight, when she’d met a guy who had come to her house to talk to her foster parents. She’d watched his eyes as he checked the layout of the house, standing in the kitchen, saying that he was from Social Services. She had taken her bracelet off to hand wash some dishes, and without it on her wrist, she’d felt the Evil that radiated from him. Evil that hunted her.
So while the man with Evil was talking to her foster parents, she’d grabbed her bracelet and snuck out of the house and jumped on her bike. Dusk was just turning black when she began the twenty-minute ride from the large old house
toward the ocean, where she often snuck at night anyway to walk the beach. But the feeling of Evil was still so real she couldn’t shake it. She wanted—no, needed—to talk to someone about it. Wanted—no, needed—to feel safe. Somehow.
The one person who had promised to help wasn’t answering her phone. That only left Mr. G. The only other person in the world she could trust. She made it to the side of the window at his house. She inched her head up to peek through the glass.
She saw a single candle.
And Mr. G on the couch. Holding a big book open in his lap.
She watched, knowing she shouldn’t watch.
It looked like he was talking to the book.
And then he glanced up, and for that split second, it seemed like he was staring right into her eyes.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
A Solid Thriller
By OutlawPoet
Crockett Grey is a school teacher with the unfortunate tendency of mourning his deceased daughter at the bottom of a bottle of liquor. When one of his female students arrives at his house in the dead of night, terrified and begging for help, those memories of his daughter compel him to help her. This simple of act of help drags him into a world of false accusations, physical assault, and political and religious intrigue.
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Truth be told, had I realized that this was considered "Christian Fiction", I probably wouldn't have selected this book. Not really my genre. However, I'm glad I did. Though it suffered from a slow start (too many points of view without any initial cohesion), the author soon found his stride and I found myself involved, interested, and curious to see how it all ended.
I don't want to put anything terribly spoilerly in this review (is that even a word?), but I want to address genre since some of the other reviews have addressed it.
I read a ton of horror, paranormal, supernatural and spec fiction. This isn't horror and it's barely - maybe - paranormal/supernatural. I really would categorize this as a thriller.
I also didn't see an overtly Christian message, though as one reviewer says, there's a lot of anti-Catholic sentiment here. Now, I'm Catholic, so maybe there was a sensitivity here, but Catholics, the Vatican, priests, etc. do seem to be presented in a wholly negative light - even seen as evil. I don't think there was a good Catholic in the bunch. A good atheist, though, so again - not sure it's really a Christian message here.
However, it's fiction, so it didn't keep me from enjoying the story.
The writing style was engaging. Some of the characters were better developed than others. Jaimie, who I thought was a major character, remained largely one-dimensional to me. Crockett was very vivid.
I would say, if you like a good thriller, you might give this one a try. It doesn't quite reach a five star rating for me, but it's a solid four.
One final note: One of the reviewers mentioned the Da Vinci Code. Some of it takes place in Rome and the Vatican and there's religious intrigue all over the place, but it's not at all like the Da Vinci Code to me. The style, plot, etc are extremely different.
However, the author does want you to think of the Da Vinci Code when reading this. He even goes so far as having one of the characters reference Dan Brown toward the end of the book - just in case you didn't get that HE thinks this is a lot like the Da Vinci Code. It's not.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Faith-Based Thriller Offers Interesting Debate
By Librarian
In Vatican City, Italy, the Pope is in an extended coma, leaving the Catholic Church with a dangerous power vacuum. On the other side of the world, in Santa Monica, California, 12-year-old Jaime--an orphan in foster care--thinks about Crockett Grey, the teacher of her Adaptive Behavior Classroom, and how he seems like he would be a really good dad. And in a room somewhere Dr. Madeleyne Mackenzie, child psychiatrist and Jaime's legal custodian, is celebrating a black mass with the other members of her coven.
Depending on the reader's religious orientation, "The Canary List" by Sigmund Brouwer can be read either as a faith-based thriller or as a fantasy with Christian overtones. Believers will enjoy Brouwer's narrative as a simplified response to Dan Brown's "The Da Vinci Code." Non-Christians, as embodied by the novel's central character, skeptic Crockett Grey, can enjoy the debate built into a storyline that avoids sermonizing while presenting some provoking arguments, such as whether or not demons and witches actually exist and whether murder or deceit is ever acceptable when committed for a greater good.
While all the characters are fairly stereotypical, the central players are likeable and the action is non-stop. The ending, delivered with a touch of sly humor, leaves room for further interpretation. Sometimes the dialogue is irritatingly repetitious or overly explanatory, suggesting the author had younger readers in mind. But, as Christian fiction, "The Canary List" should provide solid entertainment for its intended audience.
(Note that this review is based on an Advance Reading Copy that contained quite a few word-processing errors. Hopefully, these will be corrected before publication.)
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Promising beginning fizzles at the end
By Bill Garrison
gmund Brouwer has been writing novels for years, but THE CANARY LIST is the first novel of his I've read. The novel opens with a bang, and as I read, I just knew I'd be adding Brouwer to my list of "can't miss" authors. Unfortunately, the last third of the book gets bogged down in complicated plot details that really don't make any sense, and abandon what made the novel so strong in the beginning.
On the night Crocket Grey plans to get drunk and honor the anniversary of his daughter's death, 12-year old Jamie Piper shows up at his house asking to stay the night. She's on the run and thinks her teacher can help. Before the night is over, Jamie's foster parents' house will be burned down, Grey's friendly neighbor will be missing, Jamie will be in the custody of a child psychiatrist, and Grey will be in jail on charges of pedophilia.
Grey is a great character as a teacher of troubled children who lost his daughter to cancer. He's trying to hang on to the relationship with his younger son while holding out hope of reconciling with his ex-wife. Jamie is a troubled youth who can sense when she's in the presence of evil. Throw in a few early scenes of Satan worship and scheming at the Vatican, and you get some sort of sense where the novel is going.
This is a novel ultimately about spiritual warfare and demons. There's no surprise there. Unfortunately, the plot really gets bogged down in the Vatican/Pope angle. There's really nothing there for the reader to care about. Jamie and Grey's relationship started the novel, but it is dropped midway through, as is Grey's relationship with his ex-wife.
Brouwer is obviously a good writer, but this book just didn't hold my interest. The explanations of Jamie's ability and the depths of the conspiracy were quite confusing at times. Also, I was never really sold on why Grey, a simple teacher, had to become involved in the conspiracy to the extent that he was. THE CANARY LIST starts out strong, but stumbles at the end as the strong characterization is dropped in favor of a too-clever of a plot.
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