(AgapePress) - Jodi Adams and Stan Taylor are high school friends in Black Friday, a new novel that investigates the issue of abortion. Jodi has a summer internship with the local paper, and Stan has had a recent, very personal connection to abortion. Without debating or preaching, the plot creates a context in which questions arise for the young heroes as well as for the reader.

Seeking answers to their questions, Jodi and Stan go "undercover" to investigate a local abortion provider. As the young heroes face danger and death, teenage readers are taken into the dark recesses of the abortion industry and its unsafe, dishonest and sometimes illegal practices.

Black Friday (W Publishing, 2003) is the fourth in the Soul Survivor series, authored by Tim LaHaye and Bob DeMoss. "To the best of my knowledge," says DeMoss, "this is the first and only novel written for young people on the topic of abortion."

The Soul Survivor series should be on the reading list of every parent, church youth worker, pastor, teacher and teenager. Other titles include The Mind Siege Project, which mimics MTV’s "The Real World." All the Rave is on drug abuse, and The Last Dance reveals the dangers of chat rooms.

LaHaye and DeMoss are handing teenagers the truth in a format they can enjoy; and they are handing adults an invaluable gift to use with their teens. Fiction is an ideal vehicle to address moral truths with teens. Jesus used stories to teach. Why shouldn’t we?

Fiction allows DeMoss and LaHaye to address a critical issue in a format that appeals to teens much more than do sermons, cut-and-dried facts, lectures or debates. Even as it captures the imagination and the reader’s attention with its fast-paced narrative, Black Friday subtly reveals many shocking facts about the abortion industry.

For example, about one in ten "doctors" who perform abortions in America never graduated from med school. It is not unusual for abortions to be performed on women who are not even pregnant. Many abortionists double or triple-bill taxpayers for abortions done on "poverty" cases under Title X. A garbage disposal is the method of choice for discarding aborted babies.

DeMoss says one former abortionist told him that "such facts are suppressed by the media primarily because the majority of journalists favor abortion and would never want to publish a story which cast abortion in a negative light."

There is probably not a teenager in the U.S. today who does not have at least one friend or acquaintance who has had an abortion. DeMoss thinks its time someone tells them the truth before they or more friends become numbered among the victims.

"Isn’t it time young people understood the truth behind the abortion industry," DeMoss asks, "as well as the risks they would face if they were to ever place themselves in the hands of an abortionist?" He and LaHaye have done a masterful job handling that truth in Black Friday.

LaHaye was a prolific non-fiction writer well known in evangelical Christian circles long before his name became a household word with the mega-success of his and Jerry Jenkins’ Left Behind series. Even with 47 titles in 33 languages and more than 50 million books in print, young adult fiction is a new genre for LaHaye.

DeMoss, on the other hand, brings a wealth of experience working with teens. He was youth culture specialist for Focus on the Family for seven years and is acknowledged as one of America’s leading authorities on popular culture, media and entertainment issues. An internationally acclaimed speaker, DeMoss has written 11 books.

Their credentials are impeccable. And their work in the Soul Survivor series – as we would expect – is exemplary. Learn more and order at W Publishing.

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