The Faithful Spy
Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler
Author and Illustrator: John Hendrix
Pages: 176
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Book Description:
The Faithful Spy is the dramatic true story of German pastor and Nazi resister Dietrich Bonhoeffer come to life in this award-winning graphic novel from John Hendrix.
Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Party is gaining strength and becoming more menacing every day. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a pastor upset by the complacency of the German church toward the suffering around it, forms a breakaway church to speak out against the established political and religious authorities. When the Nazis outlaw the church, he escapes as a fugitive. Struggling to reconcile his faith and the teachings of the Bible with the Nazi Party’s evil agenda, Bonhoeffer decides that Hitler must be stopped by any means possible!
Review:
I LOVE John Hendrix’s books for many reasons. He makes historical biographies gripping with his illustrations, tells a story clearly and in a moving way, he uses typography and images together in amazing ways, and also because he is a Christian and is not skirting his faith in his books. He tells stories of Christian heroes in a way that is wonderful to see in the culture of books today.
In reading this right after I read Corrie Ten Boom’s story of WWII, it was almost a counterpoint, in that while Corrie learned to trust God and obey even while being tortured in concentration camps, Bonhoeffer was wrestling with whether Christians had a duty to physically fight back against evil in the form of Adolf Hitler. I enjoyed thinking about these issues and also would like to learn more about Bonhoeffer and read some of his own writings.
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