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    <body><![CDATA[It takes an obsessive mind to know one. And Daniel Clark knows the elusive killer he's been stalking.<br/><br/>He's devoted every waking minute as a profiler to find the serial killer known only as Eve. He's pored over the crime scenes of sixteen young women who died mysterious deaths, all in unde...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57957878">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Adam is Ted Dekker's best and most compelling work to date, and also the most disturbing. If it were to be compared to a movie, 'The Exorcist' would be the closest. I quote Dekker when he says,<br/><br/><em>&quot;This is one of the only books I've ever written, where, honestly, I was so disturbed by w...</em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43061702">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Ted Dekker returns to an earlier style reminiscent of Blink and Thr3e. Be forewarned, Adam is a hardboiled crime story that makes no attempt to sugarcoat evil with civil niceties. Daniel is hunting a serial killer only known to authorities as Eve. Daniel’s obsession with finding Eve before he kill...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43682273">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It didn't have the same satisfying ending as <em>Thr3e</em> did, but it contained the same thrill and creepiness and surprise up until the end, especially in the final twist. I so did not expect that. I thought for a moment that there would be a longer &quot;what happened next&quot; story after...when I got ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46736434">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Today I review Adam, another Ted Dekker book from 2008. Adam revolves around Daniel Clark, and FBI detective/psychologist as he investigates a serial killer known as Eve. Daniel eventually sees Eve's face forgets when he gets shot by him, making his heart stop for a few moments. Daniel then becomes ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65805851">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I overlooked so much about this book. The fact that it was a Christian novel, or at least I realized it later when I read other critiques didn't really bother me or turn me off. Writing is writing and we learn from everything we see and or read. Nor did I ever feel preached too or that Dekker was be...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43310030">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I am a huge Ted Dekker fan so my review is a tad biased, but this is an entertaining read. I wish more Christian authors would write like this. Dekker writes of the fantastic with an eye on reality. Too many Christian authors can't seem to get a grasp on the real world when they write and their stor...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65780066">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Fantastic as always, Mr. Dekker!  This book is amazingly apt at making me think it could be part truth.   The descriptions of Martin Malachi's book made me look it up online.  Finding that it was indeed a real book and that Martin Malachi was indeed a real person, I wondered what other references wo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55522732">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[            I was first introduced to the writings of Ted DeKker with his book Thr3e.  I remember reading this book and the whole time thinking to myself, “This can’t be a Christian author!  The story is original, captivating and it isn’t trying to convert me to Christianity!”  I have often ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36714654">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a fast paced, highly readable work of fiction that focuses on the darkness that the human soul can become immersed in. The highly connectable characters combined with tense and understandable dialogue makes this an enjoyable read. The topics found Adam are often horrific, disturbing, or at ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18725322">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[since we are required to give a minimum of 1 star, t did that; however this was a horrible book.  Written in a very clever manner, the prose was intriguing, yet beguiling with it's anti-Christian undertones.  In the end, I became haunted by the taunting visions of a detective story with true promise...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59091617">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I have enjoyed Ted Dekker's books even though they are a bit &quot;different&quot; in the style of how they are written.<br/><br/>In Adam you have the story of an FBI team (one major character) trying to stop a serial killer whom they have designated &quot;Eve&quot; because of religious overtones ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23772133">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[HOLY SMOKES! I have to say, this is by far my favorite Dekker book yet! I thought I knew what the book was about, but right around 180ish pages into the book things took a twist and suddenly all these tiny details that I thought I knew were suddenly turned upside down and the real story started to r...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67444690">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is probably my favorite book of all time! It is so intense and all around amazing. Dekker wrote a wonderful, piece of fiction that somehow reads as a nonfiction book. I truly think this is him at his best. The story follows the story of a die-hard atheist psychologist who discovers that not eve...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59468038">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow.  Way too dark for me.  Supposed to be a Christian author.  Seems more dark than light if you ask me.  I tried to read it.  There seemed to be two plotlines.  I skimmed for the one plot throughout the book and it just made me sick and sad.  Two kids are kidnapped from poor but doting parents and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38949404">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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