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  <title><![CDATA[Soon: The Beginning of the End (Underground Zealot)]]></title>
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  <default_description>&lt;b&gt;2004 Christy Fiction award winner!&lt;/b&gt; &lt;p&gt;Paul Stepola, an agent working for the National Peacekeeping Organization (NPO), has been assigned to enforce compliance with the world government's prohibition on religion. Paul relishes his job and is good at it. He is determined to expose underground religion--flush it out, expose it, and kill it--until his life is turned upside down and he is forced to look at life in a different way. &lt;p&gt;As Paul begins to unravel the truth about what he has found, events taking place around the world start to make sense. Something big is coming--something that can't be stopped. And it is coming &lt;I&gt;soon.&lt;/I&gt;</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">2003</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Jerry B. Jenkins]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Apr 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoy apocalyptic lit, and really enjoyed the Left Behind series, also by this author.  But I just couldn't get into this book, so I stopped reading it.  I think it lost me after the main character &quot;Paul&quot;'s conversion to Christianity, which seemed to come so early in the book.  He really...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53930746">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Aug 21 14:18:38 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Aug 21 14:27:03 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I greatly enjoyed Jenkin's writing in &quot;Riven&quot; and the &quot;Left Behind&quot; series, which is why I bought this novel. I definitely enjoyed it and am glad I read it. The story was interesting and exciting, and it proposed a thought-provoking idea of what the future could hold. It is almos...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68373849">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="77202280">
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  <read_at>Wed Nov 11 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Nov 09 08:24:08 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Nov 11 14:22:22 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Excellent series of 3 books:Soon,Silenced &amp; Shadowed.<br/><br/>Soon begins with a National Peace Organization Special Agent Dr. Paul Stepola. At this time in America &quot;God' in any way shape or form has been made illegal. No worship, no faith and certainly no believing in God. It is Paul's job ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77202280">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="66970599">
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  <read_at>Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Aug 11 11:35:26 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Aug 11 11:38:11 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Less than half a century into our future, the world has become a very different place to live. Convinced that religious fundamentalism is the root cause of humanity's problems, religion has been outlawed after a shattering WWIII and Christians have been forced to move underground.&quot;<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66970599">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="77142225">
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  <read_at>Mon Apr 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Nov 08 16:56:26 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Nov 08 16:58:55 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This seemed more like a beginning work from a beginning writer who also happens to be the religious sort.  The framework was there for a good story, but it lacked polish and the ending was a big fat letdown of no ending.  Don't waste your time.]]></body>
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    <review id="46273766">
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    <body><![CDATA[As gripping as the Left Behind Series.  Very well written.  I couldn't put it down once I started it.  ]]></body>
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    <review id="28040168">
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  <read_at>Fri Jul 25 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Mon Jul 28 08:52:13 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a different take on end times than we see in the Left Behind books. It is causes you to think about what the persecution would be like if Christianity became illegal now.  I am enjoying the story and the characters, but at times it feels rushed.  I feel somewhat lost in some of the actions s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28040168">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="49979702">
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was like a bad rehash of the Left Behind book except with very flat characters I was completely uninterested in. I stopped after Chapter 5.  ]]></body>
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    <review id="22776319">
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  <read_at>Thu May 22 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu May 22 16:14:52 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Nothing new with this book -- it is like all of the other Left Behind books -- different characters, same story.  Would I read it again?  No.]]></body>
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    <review id="16348171">
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  <read_at>Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Very similar to Jenkins' and LaHaye's Left Behind series.  If you liked those, you'll like this one.]]></body>
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    <review id="44072270">
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    <name><![CDATA[Wimmerterry]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Mar 16 14:22:38 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Seems interesting.  I rec'd the 3 book series as a present at Christmas.  Easy read.]]></body>
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    <review id="4097728">
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    <name><![CDATA[Brandy]]></name>
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  <date_added>Sun Aug 05 03:58:03 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Aug 13 08:53:30 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Very good book, especially if you like the Left Behind Series.]]></body>
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    <review id="22970320">
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    <body><![CDATA[Great Christian fiction.]]></body>
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    <review id="59343183">
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    <body><![CDATA[religion has been outlawed and its few followers are hunted down and exterminated.... a future age persecution of religious rights]]></body>
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    <review id="6898202">
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  <read_at>Wed Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Great series]]></body>
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