Renegade

Ted Dekker

Apr 2010 · The Lost Book Book 3 · HarperChristian + ORM

About this ebook

In Renegade, the third in the Lost Books series, a YA spin-off of the New York Times bestselling Circle series, one of the chosen will leave his world . . . and enter ours.

One of the chosen has gone renegade.

Turning his back on all that he once believed, Billos does the forbidden and enters into a Book of History. He lands in a reality as foreign to him as water is to oil—a place called Paradise, Colorado. He has strange new powers given to him courtesy of a mysterious figure known as Marsuvees Black.

The chosen four have survived the desert, escaped the Black Forest, battled the Horde, and added a spirited refugee to their number. But nothing has prepared them for the showdown that Billos, the renegade, is luring them into. 

• Book 3 of 6 in the Lost Books series (a spin-off of the Circle Series)
  • Lost Books 1: Chosen
  • Lost Books 2: Infidel
  • Lost Books 3: Renegade
  • Lost Books 4: Chaos
  • Lost Books 5: Lunatic
  • Lost Books 6: Elyon
  • Circle Book 0: Green
  • Circle Book 1: Black
  • Circle Book 2: Red
  • Circle Book 3: White
• Full-length book (70,000 words)

Ratings and reviews

This stage of the series breaks new ground (though not new for Dekker's fantasy realm). It begins to explore the power of the Books of History and the other earth(s?). I don't particularly care for Dekker's dark side or the intentionally weird aspects of the fantasy realms. But I'll tolerate it if it ends well. I'm not yet sure in this series, mostly because the Biblical allegory is not as rich or apparent.

About the author

The son of missionaries, Ted Dekker grew up in the jungles of Indonesia. He returned to the United States to attend Evangel College, graduating with a religion and philosophy major. After several years in corporate marketing, he began writing books like Heaven's Wager. Ted and his wife live in the mountains of Colorado with their four children.