Long Walk Home by DiAnn Mills

Long Walk Home by DiAnn Mills ISBN-13: 9781496433251 Paperback: 296 pages Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. Released: June 4th 2019

Source: ebook review copy from the publisher through NetGalley.

Book Description, Modified from Goodreads:
As an Arab Christian pilot for a relief organization, Paul Farid feels called to bring supplies to his war-torn countrymen in southern Sudan. But with constant attacks from Khartoum’s Islamic government, the villagers have plenty of reasons to distrust Paul, and he wonders if the risks he’s taking are really worth his mission.

American doctor Larson Kerr started working with the Sudanese people out of a sense of duty and has grown to love them all, especially Rachel, her young assistant. But despite the years she’s spent caring for them, her life feels unfulfilled. It’s a void that both Paul and Rachel’s older brother, Colonel Ben Alier of the Sudanese People’s Liberation Army, notice.

When Rachel is abducted, Paul, Ben, and Larson agree to set aside their differences to form an unlikely alliance to find her. Their faith and beliefs tested, each must find the strength to walk the path God has laid before them, to find their way home.


My Review:
Long Walk Home is a Christian suspense novel set in 2003 in southern Sudan. There were several viewpoint characters: an American doctor who has spent many years serving in this village, a colonel in the Sudanese People’s Liberation Army who is trying to protect his people, an Arab Christian pilot for a relief organization who was once a Muslim from northern Sudan, and a 12-year-old village boy who helps the doctor but who wants to join the Army to get revenge for his family's death. This provided a number of viewpoints on the situation in southern Sudan in 2003. When the sister of the colonel is kidnapped--probably to be sold as a slave or tortured for her Christian faith--the colonel must work with the man he views as an enemy, the Arab pilot whose conversion to Christianity seems suspect to him.

Details about the conflict in Sudan were woven into the story and drove the action. The characters were interesting, engaging, and reacted in realistic ways to events. Both the Arab Christian and the colonel were interested in the doctor romantically, creating relationship tension in addition to the dangers of working in war-torn Sudan. The Arab Christian also had a price on his head due to his conversion, making it even more dangerous for him to work anywhere in Sudan. The doctor left her Christian faith due to her anger that God allowed innocent people to die. The rest of the main characters were Christians, and the Arab Christian felt that God wanted him to help the doctor back to faith in Him. There was no sex or bad language. Overall, I'd recommend this interesting, suspenseful novel.


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