(pb; 1975, 1991)
From the back cover
“Reporter Reuben Bourne has
broken a promise─to cast a paramilitary white supremacy group in a favorable
light. Now, one basically peaceful man, one with a paradoxical attraction for
violence, must confront a force of unrelenting hate. Somehow, he must survive─as
he leads his family on a desperate flight into a wilderness as unforgiving as
the fanatical humans who pursue him.”
Review
Testament is a near-impossible-to-set-down, grim survival thriller. Morrell’s writing balances nuanced understanding about his characters’ emotional states and blunt nature-survival and action writing, as Bourne and his family (wife Claire and eight-year-old daughter Sarah) flee into the wilderness to escape the patient, relentless killers who’ve come to get their revenge on the writer with a secret sin. There are some truly disturbing events in this entertaining, intense novel, and the ending─which could go nasty or otherwise─is character true. Testament is not recommended for those who cannot stand to see children or women menaced, possibly harmed and killed.
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