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The Last Day
The Last Day
Author: James Landis
I meet Jesus on the day I get home from the war. I'm on the beach, but I don't know how I got here. My mind is as dark as the night.... I spend the whole night on the beach. But when the sun's faint light begins to bend around the Earth, I see him.... There, coming toward me, out of the light, is a man.... Behind the man a faint c...  more »

So begins the spellbinding story of Warren Harlan Pease, a young U.S. Army sniper freshly returned from the Iraq War to his native New Hampshire. What follows is a page-turning adventure that is also a powerful meditation on religion and war, love and loss.

The Last Day answers questions and asks many more. Armed with a sniper's rifle and his deeply held faith, Specialist Pease travels across ideological borders and earns an appreciation for his enemy's culture and for what connects us all as human beings. "War doesn't test your faith in Jesus," Warren comes to realize. "It tests your faith in yourself." Upon returning home, he spends an entire day with Jesus visiting and contemplating his own life with fresh eyes, and a willing heart. He examines his relationship to those he loves, and grapples with the pain he has been carrying inside since the death of his mother when he was just a boy.

This extraordinary work of compassion and healing grace combines the themes of religion, war and poetry in a way that is wholly original, and unforgettable. It will resonate with skeptics and believers, be shared and discussed between friends and among families.
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ISBN-13: 9781586421656
ISBN-10: 1586421654
Publication Date: 9/1/2009
Pages: 304
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Publisher: Steerforth
Book Type: Paperback
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This is an AMAZING story. I don't care who you are--man or woman, soldier or civilian, believer or not--this book will touch you deeply. Fabulously written.


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