Title:  Death Watch

Author: Jack Cavanaugh and Jerry Kuiper

Publisher: Zondervan

ISBN: 0310215765

Genre: Inspirational/Mystery/Suspense

You have been selected for death. Precisely forty-eight hours from the time of this transmission you will die.

This is an official death watch notice.

Meet Sydney St. James, a rookie LA news reporter for KSMJ, who has unintentionally stumbled onto the biggest story of her life. Forced by her boss to do a feature on a monster traffic jam in process outside their building, Sydney uncovers more than anyone dreamed she would.

People are dying en masse. Not only in America, but around the world, people from all walks of life receive death watch notices and then die exactly when the notice predicts they will.

Hunz Vonner, top newscaster at Euro Net broadcasting network, is scheduled to tour the KSMJ station with Sydney’s boss Sol Rosenthal. But upon hearing about the most recent death watch notice, he scratches everything to work with Sydney on the now big-time story.

Hunz thinks he has obtained helpful information incriminating the Russian mafia’s emerging nanotechnology. The idea of inserting nanobots into a human’s bloodstream to inject poison or cause life-threatening blood clots seems farfetched. But what other explanation makes more sense?

Sydney and Hunz visit a man due to die any moment, bringing with them medical personnel ready to save him from his untimely demise. Will they be able to save at least one person from calamity?

A street preacher to the homeless seeks Sydney out in order to explain the solution for death watch. Does he really have answers, or is he just a crazy fanatic? Can Sydney afford to listen to him? Can she afford not to?

Death Watch had me intrigued right off, from the snazzy cover to the first chapter and on until the end. The colorful, loveable, and sometimes hateable characters entertained me while the plot whisked me through to the final word. The premise makes a convicting spiritual point — saying more might ruin the plot. Mystery, intrigue, death, romance, and supernatural elements came together in an engrossing tale I won’t forget any time soon.