Line #76 Creator/TedDekker


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2	->''"There’s a reason we are drawn to the light. A reason why we fear darkness. It’s important to be terrified and unnerved about certain things."''
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4	Ted Dekker is a New York Times best-selling author of more than twenty novels. He is best known for stories which could be broadly described as "suspense thrillers with major twists and unforgettable characters," though he has also made a name for himself among fantasy fans.
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6	Dekker was born in the jungles of Indonesia, amongst cannibals who killed the parents of several of his friends when he was a child. Undeterred his parents befriended the people and made their home with them. It was a dark place full of witchcraft and death. Violence and bloodshed were common--perhaps this explains some of the violence in Ted's novels.
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8	Separated from his parents at age 6 to attend a coastal school for a few months at a time, Dekker describes his early life in a culture to which he was ultimately a stranger as both fascinating and at times lonely. It is this unique upbringing that forced him to rely on his own imagination to create a world in which he belonged.
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10	Now, nine years from the publication of his first novel, his novels have sold roughly 5 million copies worldwide. Two of his novels, ''Literature/{{Thr3e}}'' and ''House'', have been made into movies with more in production. Dekker resides in Austin with his wife Lee Ann and their children.
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12	[[folder:Ted Dekker's Fictional Works]]
13	* The Caleb Series
14	** ''Blessed Child'' (with Bill Bright) - April, 2001
15	** ''A Man Called Blessed'' (with Bill Bright) - September, 2002
16	* The Martyr's Song Series
17	** ''The Martyr's Song'' - 2005
18	** ''Heaven's Wager'' - October, 2000
19	** ''When Heaven Weeps'' - May, 2001
20	** ''Thunder of Heaven'' - February, 2002
21	* ''Blink'' - January 2003, re-released as Blink Of An Eye (2007) with a few narrative changes.
22	* ''[=Thr3e=]'' - September 2003, was made into a film.
23	* ''Obsessed'' - February, 2005
24	* ''Adam'' - 2008
25	* ''Kiss'' (with Erin Healy) - January 2009
26	* ''Bone Man's Daughters'' - April 2009
27	* ''Burn'' (with Erin Healy) - January 2010
28	* ''The Bride Collector'' - April 2010
29	* Books of History Chronicles
30	** The Circle Series
31	*** ''Black''
32	*** ''Red''
33	*** ''White''
34	*** ''Green''
35	** The Paradise Novels
36	*** ''Showdown'' (January 2006)
37	*** ''Saint'' (October 2006)
38	*** ''Sinner'' (September 2008)
39	** The Lost Books
40	*** ''Chosen''
41	*** ''Infidel''
42	*** ''Renegade''
43	*** ''Chaos''
44	*** ''Lunatic''
45	*** ''Elyon''
46	* The Book of Mortals Series (with Tosca Lee)
47	** ''Forbidden''
48	** ''Mortal''
49	** ''Sovereign''
50	** ''Other''
51	*** ''House'' (with {{Creator/Frank Peretti}}), was made into a 2008 film.
52	*** ''Skin''
53	*** ''Immanuel's Veins''
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56	!!Works by Ted Dekker with their own pages include:
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58	* ''{{Literature/Adam}}''
59	* ''Literature/TheBrideCollector''
60	* ''Literature/TheCircleSeries''
61	* Literature/TheParadiseNovels
62	** ''Literature/{{Saint}}''
63	* ''{{Literature/Skin}}''
64	* ''{{Literature/Thr3e}}''
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66	!!Other works by Ted Dekker contain examples of:
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68	* CanonWelding: Literature/TheCircleSeries, Literature/TheParadiseNovels, Literature/TheLostBooks, and House, Skin, and Immanuel's Veins all apparently take place in the same universe, so this is to be expected.
69	** The surnames of {{Serial Killer}}s in these books tend to be colors: Marsuvees Black of Literature/TheParadiseNovels, Sterling Red of {{Literature/Skin}}, Barsidius White of House...
70	** Saint Thomas the Beast Hunter, from Literature/ImmanuelsVeins is mentioned briefly on two occasions in Green.
71	** Roush (fuzzy white bats with emerald eyes) show up a few times.
72	** Shataiki, [[BatOutOfHell evil black bats]][[spoiler: whose descendants are featured in ''Immanuel's Veins'']].
73	* CharacterOverlap: Many, if not all, of the books are in the same continuity, as one book references characters from seemingly unrelated books.
74	* ImprobablyHighIQ: Seth Walker in ''Blink'' has an IQ of 193.
75	* SerialKiller: In ''Boneman's Daughters''.
76	* TongueTrauma: In ''The Priest's Graveyard'', Danny Hansen drugs a man into unconsciousness and cuts out a piece of tongue before deciding that the man doesn't deserve to live on even like that and kills him anyway.
77	* TzadikimNistarim: {{Invoked}} in ''Eyes Wide Open''. Project Showdown revolves around recruiting and raising 36 orphaned children in a special Christian monastery (it follows the path of light) with the purpose of rebirthing Earth into a new era.

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