Damien the Man: The Son of Perdition

Ralph D. Nybakken
Outskirts Press (2007)
ISBN 9781432702595
Reviewed by Cherie Fisher for Reader Views (8/08)


As an avid “Left Behind” series reader, I was really looking forward to reading “Damien the Man.”  The author did an excellent job condensing the end-times concept into one book, versus the many of the “Left Behind” series.  And because it is a shorter story he does not go into the biblical interpretations as deeply, which enhances the appeal of the book to a much broader audience than most books of this type. 

The main character in the story is Dr. Michael Abbott Nelson, who has just finished creating a computer program that will track people through chips placed in either the forehead or finger.  Sound familiar?  Michael is riding with his best friends to celebrate the launch of the software when they mysteriously disappear.  After the car crashes because the driver is gone, Michael gets out of it to a completely new world.  Millions of people from all over the globe have disappeared too.  The government is not addressing the why of where they went, but rumor has it that they were all Christians. 

As Michael works with Damien, the Secretary-General, on the new world order, he and his wife, Tracey, begin to follow the thread of information that their friends left behind for them.  They see that the prophecies are being fulfilled and that the world has plunged into seven years of tribulation.  As the world goes crazy with war and Damien begins to take over, they know that they are going to have to take a stand and not take the very mark that Michael worked so hard to create. 

This well-written book is action-packed and is definitely written for a broad audience.  Someone who is not familiar with the end times prophecies would be able to pick up “Damien the Man” by Ralph D. Nybakken and have a good understanding of what has been prophesied by the end of the book.  A person who has been studying the end times in great detail might not enjoy this story as much because the story is too short to delve very deeply into the subject thoroughly.

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