The Oath

The Oath
By Frank Peretti
Thomas Nelson, 1995. 649 pgs. Fiction

The only way to categorize this book is "Christian Horror". Set in the small mining town of Hyde River, this story involves a "dragon" which is literally a physical representation of the sins of a community. Just as people are in denial about their sins--this community denies the existence of the dragon, although it is literally eating them alive...

When an outsider, a wildlife biologist named Steve Benson, arrives to investigate the death of his brother, he begins unraveling a mystery that goes back a century and permeates the unknowing lives of everyone in the community of Hyde River. This horror story is a bit gruesome, but the reader won't find anything here in the way of profanity or explicit sex.