'What If' There Was a True Christian Hero in a Novel?

Don writes:

What if there was a Christian novel that had a true hero who already has a full and complete understanding of his relationship with God through Christ?

I remember years ago as a young teenager, reading a true story of a spy during WWII who, after retirement, remarked that because of his relationship with Christ, he took what he called "necessary chances" whenever he was on mission because he felt he could not be killed until God said it was time. Obviously, God kept him alive throughout all his "adventures."

The "hero" I'm talking about could evolve into something like the following:

"What if" a troubled young man, in whom a judge sees something worth saving, is faced with prison or the army?

"What if" this young man eventually becomes a sharpshooter with the army rangers?

"What if," while with the rangers, he is able to accumulate at least 10 confirmed kills to his record?

"What if" he is tapped for a single-person special ops to go into Iran and retrieve plans for a nuclear device that had been stolen by some offshoot Al Queda outfit?

"What if," by this point in his career, this ranger just happens to have become a committed Christian who felt that as long as he remained in the center of God's will he could take whatever chances "necessary" to retrieve those plans without worrying about being killed himself?

"What if," during his "adventures" he encounters Iranian believers who are able to help him carry out his mission, but in the process one of them is captured and tortured to make them reveal the name and whereabouts of the "hero."

"What if" the hero decides it's worth the risk going in for the captured believer and, though successful, has to take lives in doing so?

And "what if" this hero has at least a trilogy, or more, in him?

Just a question.

Now to try and "boil" down my question into one sentence.  Are there any authors willing to write (or publishers willing to publish) a novel in the tradition of Allistair Maclean, but with a main character who is also a committed Christian?

After reading Lion of Babylon, Don followed up with this note:

I just finished reading Lion of Babylon. I received it in the mail right after I had written of my desire of a "what if," about a gutsy Christian hero.

The thing that amazes me most is that the idea I was trying to ask you  to develop concerning a "gutsy Christian hero," had already been put to print and I didn't even realize it!

It was an amazing book. Sorry about the word, "amazing," it just seems to fit. You fulfilled a desire I've had for quite a while.

Dear Don,

It certainly was a delight to read both your initial 'what if', and your response to Lion.

Our desire from the very beginning, both my own and that of Bethany House Publishers, was to construct a story that competed head-on with the best of contemporary thrillers, and yet was built around a character who lived his faith.

There are so many direct and immediate examples of this in real life, as you and I both know. And yet too often the contemporary story creates an atmosphere of doubt, of questioning of the eternal. Why not make this the core issue that is the conduit through which a deeper and more complex moral can be expressed?

It is so good to know that this story resonated for you.