A Thorn in the Heart

By Tim Stafford

Who could possibly want to harm a handicapped teenager and his three friends? That's what Frank Hager, chuch-going family man and father of one of the missing boys wonders. Hager teams up with a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0310580617
• ISBN13: 9780310580614
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Zondervan
• Length: 245 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.8" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Thorn in the Heart.

Who would possibly want to murder a handicapped teenager and his three friends? That's what Frank Hager, the father of one of the missing boys, wonders when he realizes his son, Robbie, has been missing ever since he left a local high-school basketball game the night before. Hager has tried his best to be a good father, failing as often as not. Patient and sincere, Hager is the opposite of the hard-boiled detective assigned to the case: Francis Balzeti of the local police department. The two of them, hounded by reporters intrigued by the sensational aspects of the case, determine to get to the bottom of the mystery, though the truth may be even more frightening than either of them had imagined. This book is a true-to-life tale of murder and family heartbreak, justice and forgiveness, from the pen of an award-winning writer. In this wrenching novel, Tim Stafford fuels our feeling about what it is like to be a father who comes to recognize his own shortcomings and the flaws in his family, which pierce him like thorns in the heart.-Luci Shaw, poet, author, and speaker A father's pain shapes the heart of this strong first novel. Suffering on his chosen cross, he turns his story from despair to redemption. Tim Stafford shows us fictively and concretely that we are bought with a price .-John Leax, poet, professor, and novelist Tim Stafford lives in Santa Rosa, California. He has co-written the Gold-Medallion-Award-winning bestseller Comeback, the true story of baseball player Dave Dravecky. He co-edited, with Philip Yancey, The Student Bible, NIV, another Gold Medallion winner and one of the best-selling Bibles of all time.