Product Description

An impossible escape from the jaws of death...The secret of a Biblical prophecy revealed...A loved one brutally murdered...Forces of terrifying evil empowered...A man of hidden courage is tested and proven ready to become a new hero for our times...The Blockbusting New Series From The Author Of Left Behind Is Here! From Dr Tim LaHaye, creator of the Left Behind series, comes a brand new adventure that combines drama and revelation with non-stop suspense. Babylon Rising introduces Michael Murphy, a field archaeologist who fearlessly hunts down and authenticates ancient artifacts from Biblical times. His latest discovery is his most amazing - but it will send him hurtling from a life of excavations and revelations to a confrontation with the forces of greatest evil.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #473986 in Books
• Published on: 2004-08-19
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 398 pages

About the Author
Dr Tim LaHaye's writing has had an immense impact on the Christian world. Books including the phenomenally popular LEFT BEHIND novels have reached over 50 million readers and have stirred thousands to accept Jesus Christ. Based in the U S A, LaHaye is a writer, minister and speaker on Bible prophecy. He has been married for more than 50 years and has four children and nine grandchildren.

Customer Reviews

not worth the time spending reading it
Tim LaHaye is the creator of the best selling Left Behind series. This is another book (the first in a series) that is based on biblical prophecy. The Left Behind books were based on the prophecies of Revelation. Babylon Rising is based on the prophecies found in the book of Daniel. The other main difference is that Babylon Rising takes place before the Rapture (the starting even of Left Behind). In the introduction to this book, Tim LaHaye writes that he is more excited about this book (and the coming series) than he has been about any other project that he has worked on. He is teaming with Greg Dinallo to write a fast paced, biblical based, adventure/thriller. LaHaye feels that the hero of this story, Michael Murphy is a fantastic protagonist, one who we should be excited to read about.

Michael Murphy is a biblical archaeologist. That means that he finds ancient artifacts and uses them to authenticate the Bible. For some time now, he has been given tips by a man who calls himself "Methuselah". Methuselah gives Murphy a tip on how to find an artifact, but at the same time he sets traps around this artifact that could easily kill Murphy. Michael accepts this and goes along with it because every biblical artifact has turned out to be genuine. Michael Murphy seems to be cut out of the Indiana Jones mold, only with a strong Christian morality.

When Murphy finds the latest artifact that Methuselah lays before him, it sets him on a path to confront a great Evil (with a capital E). We are also introduced to the other side, an organization known as the Seven, and their murderous henchman named Talon. As Murphy searches for a biblical artifact known as the Brazen Serpent, an endtime prophecy of Daniel begins to unfold.

As LaHaye wrote in the introduction, this is a fast paced adventure book. It is based on biblical prophecy, but unlike Left Behind, this one didn't hook me. I was able to read the book quite quickly, but I wasn't too interested in what happened to any of the characters (except for one minor character). Rather than be the great Christian hero that LaHaye had hoped for, Michael Murphy is a caricature. He is so idealized that he isn't believable as a character or as a person. That might be part of the problem with the entire book. While it is written with the best of intentions, the dialogue is horrible, the writing a step below that of Left Behind, and riddled with cliché. There is no sense that the dialogue between characters could possibly be a real conversation. It felt phony and forced.

With all that said, if you loved the Left Behind books, you may enjoy Babylon Rising. It is similar to that series, and has the same basis in Biblical Prophecy. I didn't find Babylon Rising to be very engaging at all. It is a fast reading book, so you won't waste too much time reading it, but I feel that your time would be better spent elsewhere.

-Joe Sherry

A gripping tale
From the first couple of sentences I was hooked! Tim LaHayes ability to draw you into the story is evident from the first chapter. I couldn't put the book down I had to know what happened next. I love the use of biblical background to the story it makes me want to read the account of Daniel and look at it with new eyes. Anything that makes you want to pick up your Bible and read it is excellent in my books. I would reccommend this to anyone and in fact have already passed the book on for others to read. Can't wait for the next installment to arrive.

Almost so bad it's good.
Ok. I've removed my previous one star review after re-reading the book (my first "reading" was listening to the audiobook).

I still think the story (involving an Illuminati-type group launching a conspiracy against evangelical Christians, and an assassin who murders people with falcons trained to attack and kill people) is ludicrous, the characters silly and the dialogue laughable. But I've got to admit that these... "qualities" actually make the book rather amusing, in a "so bad it's good" kind of way.

It's common knowledge that Tim LaHaye doesn't do any actual writing on any of "his" novels, and this time he's found another hack co-writer in Greg Dinallo.

Anybody looking for a good adventure novel should look elsewhere. But those looking for an example of brainless Christian fiction at its worst may find "Babylon Rising" amusing, although it does contain some rather slow sequences.