Frank E. Peretti is a bestselling author, with over nine million copies of his books sold, yet he is perhaps one of the least-known popular writers around for the simple fact that he publishes in what was once the niche category "Christian fiction." Peretti's "publisher acclaims him the successor to C. S. Lewis; the Darkness novels have sold millions. Yet the author's name is virtually unknown outside the Christian community," wrote Jared Lobdell in National Review. Writing in Christianity Today, Michael G. Maudlin called Peretti the "great fundamentalist novelist, the father of the blockbuster Christian fiction."

Hailed in Time and Newsweek as the creator of the crossover Christian thriller, Peretti is the son of a minister as well as an ordained minister himself, and his evangelical stories celebrate the divine power of God and prayer. In his works, inspired by conservative Christian theology, angels vanquish demons and good...