“Ezra.” Esther’s voice. For ten, twelve heartbeats there was silence on the line. Then she said, “I … I have been thinking. Perhaps …”
“… loses his life for My sake will find it.” The phrase rugged at him like a lodestone.
“Perhaps we should talk,” Esther was saying.
“Yeshua … He will protect …”
Ezra cleared his throat. “Yes. Perhaps we should.”
THE MOVING PRISON
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LCCN 94033034
ISBN 978-1-56476-390-7
eISBN 978-0-7814-1003-8
© 1995, 2012 William Mirza and Thom Lemmons
First print edition published as Passport by David C Cook in 1995.
The Team: Carole Streeter and Barbara Williams
Cover Design: Amy Konyndyk
Cover Photo: iStockPhoto
First Digital Edition 2012
William Mirza was born in northwestern Iran in 1904 and emigrated to the United States in 1958. Inspired by the literary style of Charles Dickens, William decided as a young man that someday he would be a writer. Twenty-six years after emigrating to the United States, at age eighty and with only 20 percent of his vision left, he decided to write a novel. After thirty-nine rejections, The Moving Prison (formerly titled Passport) was published with the help of Thom Lemmons five months before William died at age ninety. He is survived by two sons and a daughter who live in California and Colorado.
Thom Lemmons is the author of twelve works of fiction, including the Christy Award–winning King’s Ransom (with Jan Beazley) and, most recently, Blameless, a modern-day retelling of the Job story. Thom is the managing editor at Texas A&M University Press in College Station.
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The Moving Prison
“A fine novel of both the triumph and defeat of the human spirit, giving us yet another parallel to the Holocaust story and to all tales of religious persecution.”
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