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Beggar's King is a culmination; the fruit of many factors affecting a restless life. It is the natural outgrowth of an insatiable desire on the part of the author for reading, a passion for history, more than a decade of pastoring small churches, a major illness, and a dearth of New Testament novels for today untinged with modern doubt.
The story takes place during the time of Christ. It features Leah, a crippled beggar girl whose crippled father sits daily at the Beautiful Gate begging alms. Into her hectic life comes Rachel, a young woman of about Leah's age, of the ruling class. There's a plot afoot with a strong nationalistic objective, which briefly envelops Leah. How it all works out is an intensely absorbing narrative, including faith in the Nazarene and a surprise ending. The author has done a tremendous amount of research to make his background and characters as authentic as humanly possible.
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