Susan May Warren, Expect the Sunrise

Expect the Sunrise

Susan May Warren

Tyndale, Apr 2006, $11.99

ISBN: 1414300883

FBI Agent Stirling "Mac" MacRae is on vacation fishing with his brother Brody near the Trans-Alaska Pipe Line System when he observes a terrorist, Ari Al-Hasid, nearby. The two siblings go after Ari, but in the scuffle, Brody is shot. Mac pleads with a plane passing by to stop to transport his sibling to a hospital, but the pilot Andee MacLeod keeps flying as she has an emergency passenger, a mother of four who is dying. After his brother dies, Mac vows vengeance against the unknown pilot.

In bad weather Andee, accompanied by the surprise visit of her best friend Sarah, flies five passengers, Nina Smith, Floyd Dekker, Martin Ishbane, Jake Phillips, and Stirling MacRae. However, Andee is forced to make an emergency landing. Sarah is unconscious and Floyd injures his leg. The chances of rescue are slim, but Andee's offer to get help is rejected by Mac, who has found evidence, including a two way radio and a map that one of them might be a terrorist plotting to destroy the pipeline. As they struggle as a group to reach a village, unbeknownst to Andee, her father the Fed is in trouble too.

The third Team Hope thriller (see ESCAPE TO MORNING and FLEE THE NIGHT) is an exhilarating romantic suspense that showcases the vast Alaskan wilderness. The storyline is exciting, because key players must make life threatening judgments that do not necessarily turn out positive; for instance when Andee ignores Mac's plea, both his brother and her patient die anyway, and Mac's decisions on their survival could kill all of them. Susan May Warren once again provides a powerful character driven tale in which choices are life threatening, with key players praying to God that they don't harm the innocent.