Here’s what I have so far on my outline…
- Daniel helps at a wreck, sees a man with a fatal injury walk away
- We meet Susan, a right wing Christian blogger
- Daniel investigates the strange life of Hendriks, the dead man
- Batarel stalks Daniel
- We meet Jeff Frankel, a crazy old
Viet Nam - Daniel meets Susan
- We meet Jack Harris, FBI. He tracks Daniel as a suspected terrorist.
- Jeff rescues Daniel and Susan from Batarel
- Daniel films the meeting in
Denver - Our heroes meet Uriel
- Susan gets a copy of the database
- Daniel and Jack kill Batarel
- Jack changes sides
- Jack takes Daniel, Susan and Jeff to
Iraq - Jeff meets with Mullah Hassan Mohammad, the keeper of the lost gospel
- Demons attack the mosque (to prevent the gospel from getting out?)
- Our heroes escape from
Iraq - Demons kill Daniel’s family
- Susan publishes her proof
- The media runs with it, and public opinion wakes up to the immortal threat
- Daniel is recruited to lead a force to combat the demons
Folks familiar with the original book will see some stuff they recognize, some stuff they definitely don’t. Jack gets introduced much earlier and the whole Iraq thing wasn’t in the original book. More comfortable with myself as a writer, I’m also introducing Susan and Jeff much earlier and allowing their stories to weave into Daniel’s rather than introducing them through Daniel’s eyes.
In this, we get a rough overview of the story, but there’s still a lot we don’t know, a lot more to fill in. But the questions that thus arise lead to some interesting stuff. What does Batarel do to Daniel? Why does the FBI think Daniel might be a terrorist? What is Jeff doing in DC? How do Daniel and Susan meet? Why does Susan care? How do they find out about the meeting in Denver? How does Uriel find them? How do they get the database? (I think that will be in Salt Lake City, on the other side of the Rockies.) How does Jack go from foe to friend? How do they know to go to Iraq to get the gospel?
Lots of good stuff there, and I’m looking forward to finding out for myself how to answer those questions. In the meantime, I feel better about the book that I have in weeks now that I can see the whole thing, even if only from very far away.
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