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Lawrence R. Deering spent more than forty years as a healthcare executive. His first novel Youth Group, was based on his experiences in the Southern Baptist church. The Spider Web Charmer featured Michael and Michelle Crawford, married private detectives with unique abilities chasing down a serial killer.
He wrote The Brotherhood, The Hart of John, (the New Apocalypse,), and The Hart of God, (the End of Days) all part of the Hart trilogy.
He is an avid audiophile and enjoys listening to his rock vinyl record collection. He lives with his wife, Lisa, in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Aaron Davis achieves what no other man has: He unites the major religions of the world, brings peace to Northern Africa and the Middle East, and brokers a treaty to eliminate weapons of mass destruction.
Jack Holder, president of the United States, is a God-fearing Texan dedicated to preserving the American way of life. He belongs to a secret Masonic organization that has placed members in the highest levels of government. When Aaron Davis and his organization, the Brotherhood of Man, call for the elimination of America’s nuclear arsenal, Jack resists. When Davis creates a global currency to replace the dollar, Jack refuses to comply.
Barbara Holder, the First Lady, believes that Aaron Davis is the Antichrist, and her pastor has his congregation preparing for Armageddon. Jack is torn between his religious beliefs, his Masonic principles, and international pressure to support the new world order.
Dr. William Hart find verses from an alternate version of the book of Revelation in his uncle, Aaron Davis’s, dissertation papers. David founded the Brotherhood of Man, an organization that united the major religions of the world, and created the world’s largest military peacekeeping force. Aaron’s quest for world domination was stopped by Will’s parents with help from the U.S. government.
Will, desperately wanting to atone for his uncle’s legacy, sets out to find the lost manuscript he believes contributed to his uncle’s rise to power. He discovers that Paul Rutledge, a powerful Satanist, is also searching for the lost text, and will stop at nothing to attain it.
If made public, the new version of the book of Revelation would shake the very foundation of the Christian faith, and change the course of history.
Successful, college educated men in their twenties and thirties are admitted to psychiatric institutions claiming to be angels in a satanic army. They know their rank, mission, and commanding officer. Many had no prior religious background. Friends, Jonathan Hart, a reporter, and Charles Atwater, a psychologist collaborate on studying these patients with Angelic Psychotic Disorder. They discover that what they call the Dark Angel movement has people placed in the highest levels of government. The book examines the ease of which a charismatic leader promising peace could persuade people to give up their individual rights. It questions the strength of faith, what normal people are capable of when confronted with enormous challenge, and the impact on individual relationships.
Former sheriff’s detective Michael Crawford suffers from night terrors and sees glimpses of the future in his dreams. Michelle has “intuitions”. Together they form the most unusual partnership as man and wife and co-owners of the Crawford Detective Agency.
Consumed with fighting terrorism, the FBI hires the Crawford’s to assist them in tracking down a serial killer who has made his way to Colorado Springs. He leaves his calling card, an unfinished equation, scratched into his victim’s bodies. The press give him the name, “The Mathematician.”
While the small agency is working its cases, Michael tries to find out what happened to his birth parents who gave him up for adoption when he was two. His obsession leads him down a dangerous and potentially deadly path.
When the Mathematician sets his sights on Michele, the Crawford’s play a dangerous cat and mouse game with a killer that has left behind a trail of victims in four states over two decades.
Steve Cameron is 16 and looking to fit in. After he witnesses the suicide of his abusive grandfather his deeply religious mother whisks them across country to start a new life. He is forced to attend the local Baptist Church where he joins the youth group, a rag tag group of misfits. There he makes life long friendships, questions his religious beliefs, and becomes involved in a power struggle with the controlling youth group leader. Steve’s desire to become popular outside of the church leads to his experimentation with drugs and alcohol. As his double life threatens to spiral out of control he will be faced with his ultimate challenge.
