Dark Intercept, The Shepherds Series, by Brian Andrews & Jeff Wilson

When dark forces emerge, will faith and firepower be enough?

 

Navy SEAL Jedidiah Johnson gets a frantic call from David Yarnell, his estranged childhood friend on the eve of his medical retirement. David's daughter was kidnapped off the Nashville streets in broad daylight. The police don't have any leads or suspects. Their only clue is the body of a dead priest left behind at the scene. With the clock ticking, David is getting desperate, and so is his wife, Rachel, Jed's first love.

 

Jed agrees to help, despite his painful history with David and Rachel. However, he's spent his career as a door-kicking Navy SEAL, not an investigator. His presence quickly attracts unwanted attention, creating friction with the local police, and triggers a mysterious attempt on his life. Right when he thinks it couldn't get any worse, it starts to happen again, the voices in his head, the nightmares, the visions. Dark memories and strange abilities, things he believed he'd left behind when he fled Nashville for the Navy when he was eighteen, start to resurface.

 

Jed understands that to save the missing girl, he has to take a leap of faith and embrace the gifts he's denied for all these years. To foil the dark intercept, he will require more than just his years as a SEAL operator, since he has no choice now but to take up arms and join the battle in the unseen spiritual warfare raging all around him. There is much more at stake than just a missing girl: the world is not the place he thought it was, and he's not alone.

 

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