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Raymond Sebastian #1
Code Name Sebastian
What happens when an unsuccessful minister who has been sheltered all his life suddenly finds himself a central figure in an international intrigue of which he wants no part?
The Reverend Raymond Sebastian has been sent to Israel by his long-suffering congregation in the hope that he might find inspiration from a modern-day pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Sebastian, realizing the trip has not been successful, decides to fly to Africa and visit missionary friends there. Shortly after take-off the plane crashes in the burning Negev desert, sixty miles from the nearest outpost of civilization.
When Sebastian discovers that the beautiful and competent stewardess is an Israeli spy and that one of the six other survivors of the crash is a Russian agent, he desperately tries to avoid involvement in a world he does not want to understand. Nor does he want the leadership of the quarreling and helpless little group--doomed to almost certain death in the desolate wasteland. It is only circumstance that forces him to take up the burden of the world's agony and in so doing find out what it means to be man and a Christian.
The Reverend Raymond Sebastian has been sent to Israel by his long-suffering congregation in the hope that he might find inspiration from a modern-day pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Sebastian, realizing the trip has not been successful, decides to fly to Africa and visit missionary friends there. Shortly after take-off the plane crashes in the burning Negev desert, sixty miles from the nearest outpost of civilization.
When Sebastian discovers that the beautiful and competent stewardess is an Israeli spy and that one of the six other survivors of the crash is a Russian agent, he desperately tries to avoid involvement in a world he does not want to understand. Nor does he want the leadership of the quarreling and helpless little group--doomed to almost certain death in the desolate wasteland. It is only circumstance that forces him to take up the burden of the world's agony and in so doing find out what it means to be man and a Christian.
- GenresFiction
269 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1967
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About the author
James Leonard Johnson
12 books4 followersJames Leonard Johnson (1927 -1987)
Attended Moody Bible Institute then worked in Nigeria as a missionary from 1955 to 1958. While there, he became Associate Editor of the Christian magazine African Challenge. In 1963 he received a BA in Journalism from the University of Michigan. He subsequently set up a graduate communications department at Wheaton College in Illinois, where he became Executive Secretary of Evangelical Literature Overseas. He then became Associate Executive Director at Lutheran World Relief in Carol Stream, Illinois. He was married with one son, Jay, who was ordained an Episcopalian minister shortly after his father died.
He wrote numerous articles and stories for Christian periodicals, as well as fourteen books, including six Sebastian novels.
Attended Moody Bible Institute then worked in Nigeria as a missionary from 1955 to 1958. While there, he became Associate Editor of the Christian magazine African Challenge. In 1963 he received a BA in Journalism from the University of Michigan. He subsequently set up a graduate communications department at Wheaton College in Illinois, where he became Executive Secretary of Evangelical Literature Overseas. He then became Associate Executive Director at Lutheran World Relief in Carol Stream, Illinois. He was married with one son, Jay, who was ordained an Episcopalian minister shortly after his father died.
He wrote numerous articles and stories for Christian periodicals, as well as fourteen books, including six Sebastian novels.
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