The Deceiving

The monster demon is BACK!
...and he's had twenty-six years to plot his revenge.

Defeated in 1985 by three twelve-year-olds, the demon called an efreet returns determined to kill them. In The Knowing, the first book of the trilogy, he sends five demon-possessed men to murder Jack Carpenter, Becca Hawkins and Daniel Burke - the now-adult twelve-year olds whose memories of that childhood summer when they battled a monster have been erased. Against all odds, the three escape and survive - only to discover that the man possessed by the efreet has been nominated to fill a vacancy on the United States Supreme Court.

In The Deceiving, the second book of The Knowing Trilogy, the efreet has changed his tactics. He's no longer trying to kill the three who defeated him. In "less time than it takes to cook a pot roast" he totally devastates their lives instead - as payback, and to keep them too busy to oppose his court nomination. And the monster has other plans, too, unspeakable plans, uglier than any of them could possibly imagine.

In parallel storylines, as their adult counterparts fight to keep a demon-possessed man from sitting on the highest court in the land in 2011, we see what happened to the three twelve-year-olds when they battled the efreet during the summer of 1985.

Award-winning journalist and Christian thriller and suspense author Ninie Hammon has created a terrifyingly real world where the people fighting to defeat invisible monsters from the bowels of hell are folks you might bump carts with in the grocery store. People so ordinary, in fact, that when the unexplainable rips apart their lives, when demons destroy their reputations and attack their children, you begin to wonder if the same thing could happen to you, too. If you enjoy a fast-paced, suspense-filled story so gripping you'll decide the dirty dishes aren't going anywhere and the car will survive one more day without an oil change, The Deceiving is the book for you.

Interview with the Author

Q - What makes The Deceiving special?

A - It carries on the story of the characters readers adopted into their families in The Knowing: Book One. Not James Bond clones who fight off half a dozen armed attackers at once without wrinkling their Armani suits, who never run out of bullets or have a bad hair day. The people in The Deceiving are normal people who just want to live their ordinary lives in peace. But they can't. They've seen the invisible monsters that walk among us. And once you've seen ... As Theresa Washington says, "You can't un-know the truth. Once you know it, you're responsible for doin' somethin' about it."

Q - Is the story of The Deceiving paranormal?

A - The story is real. Things happen in the story--just like things happen in real life--that are "unexplainable." There are forces at work in the universe we can't see, with power we can't begin to imagine and plans we don't understand. Is it any wonder that some things in life flat out don't have a reasonable, rational explanation?

Q - Why should readers give this book a try?

A - Because it will sweep you up into a world you never dreamed existed, a reality so gripping it will challenge everything you know about life, about yourself, about good and evil and the whole nature of the universe.

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Genre: Mystery