Review: Murder, and Mercedarians
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 10, 2013
Martin Roth writes a gripping tale about the persecuted church in Brother Half Angel. Beginning in China during the Boxer Revolution, the story takes readers to modern day China and the era of the Christian underground church. Daniel Westloke, a descendent of martyred missionaries, and his wife Jenny join Ling, a recently released prisoner of faith, in Fulang, China. There, Jenny teaches English in the Bond Street School of English, a cover for the underground seminary where Daniel teaches theology. Discord in the seminary is fueled by thugs from the local Taoist temple who throw a body of one of the seminary students over the wal surrounding the facility. Infighting and harassment from the Plum Flower Boxers from the temple, threatens the marriage between Daniel and Jenny when in walks Brother Half Angel to the rescue. Discover where his name comes from, his purpose and mission as you read Brother Half Angel. Roth does a good job of adding tension to His novel as he shows his readers the difference between country's with theological freedoms and those who don't.