The release date for the English version of 'Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy' by
Eric Metaxas is Apr 2010. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
As Adolf Hitler and the Nazis seduced a nation, bullied a continent, and attempted to exterminate the Jews of Europe, a small number of dissidents and saboteurs worked to dismantle the Third Reich from the inside. Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a pastor and writer who gained notoriety for his spiritual books like "The Cost of Discipleship" and "Life Together," but also for his role in the 1945 assassination plan against Adolf Hitler, which led to his murder in a detention camp.
"New York Times" best-selling author Eric Metaxas uses both of Bonhoeffer's lives—as a spy and as a theologian—to present a riveting tale of extraordinary moral bravery in the face of horrific evil in the first major biography of the philosopher in forty years. Through an intensely poignant story, Metaxas employs hitherto unpublished materials—such as intimate correspondence, in-depth diaries, and first-person testimonies—to unveil hitherto unseen facets of Bonhoeffer's life and faith.
In "Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy"―"A Righteous Gentile vs the Third Reich," Metaxas presents the fullest accounting of Bonhoeffer's heart-wrenching 1939 decision to leave the safe haven of America for Hitler's Germany, and using extended excerpts from love letters and coded messages written to and from Bonhoeffer's Cell 92, Metaxas tells for the first time the full story of Bonhoeffer's passionate and tragic romance.
Readers will learn about his life-altering months in the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, as well as his unorthodox viewpoint on why Christians have a duty to defend Jews. Metaxas also sheds new light on Bonhoeffer's reaction to Kristallnacht, his involvement in the famous Valkyrie plot and in "Operation 7," the effort to smuggle Jews into neutral Switzerland.
"Bonhoeffer" bears evidence to the incredible faith of a man as well as the tragic destiny of the country he worked so hard to free from the grip of Nazism. It presents the reader with a guy who is radical, brave, and joyous in his desire to carry out God's will—even if it means dying. "Bonhoeffer" tells the tale of a life characterized by a love of justice for people up against unforgiving evil and a quest for the truth.