T.L. Hines | The Falling Away
Published: April 11, 2011
Crow Indian and Iraq War veteran Dylan Runs Ahead has just killed two Canadians during a foiled drug drop. His friend and accomplice was shot in the shoulder, and a deranged woman seems to be stalking them. His sister, who disappeared when they were teenagers, still talks to him, and he banishes difficult emotions to his own internal “kill box.”
So when he’s told that he’s “chosen,” Runs Ahead is understandably perplexed. For what? By whom? Li, the charismatic leader of a Judith Gap commune known as the HIVE, certainly wants to keep him around.
God works in very mysterious ways in the latest Christian thriller by Billings author T.L. Hines. With an edgy, fast-paced plot, gritty characters and zingy dialogue, Hines keeps readers on edge as the hero careens through central Montana, discovering that demons and exorcists aren’t just the province of movies.
“That’s what the Falling Away was about, really,” thinks Quinn, who copes with the pain of drawing evil out of others by embedding metal objects beneath her skin. “Killing the disease carried by cults before they could spread it to others. Killing the hate.”
Hines has written several “noir bizarre” novels, including Faces in the Fire, The Unseen and The Dead Whisper On. Waking Lazarus was among Library Journal’s 25 Best Genre Fiction Books of the Year in 2006.
His latest was published by Thomas Nelson Publishers, Nashville, Tenn., and sells for $14.99 softcover.
– Kristi Niemeyer
