The Ambition: A Novel by Lee Strobel

Author:Lee Strobel [Strobel, Lee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Police Procedural, Mystery & Detective, Suspense, Fiction
ISBN: 9780310292678
Publisher: Zondervan
Published: 2010-01-02T06:00:00+00:00

IV

"What is this?"

Bursting in unannounced just before 8:00 a.m., Eric Snow slapped the Examiner onto his associate pastor's desk. Art ignored the paper and instead made eye contact with his boss, offering him a transparently insincere grin.

"Well, Reverend Snow—I mean, Senator Snow—I can't remember the last time I saw you," he said, extending his hand in a mock gesture as if to a long-lost friend. "How've you been? How's the wife?"

"Don't pull that with me?"

"Eric, you've been incommunicado for more than a week. You haven't returned my calls, you're dodging the media, you've left us high and dry. What've you been doing all this time—working on your acceptance speech?"

Snow thrust a finger toward the article just below the fold of the front page. "Have you seen this?" he demanded, pointing to the headline: SNOW'S CHURCH CLAIMS 'MIRACULOUS' HEALINGS. And the subhead: DESPERATE CROWDS FLOCK TO SENATE HOPEFUL'S WEALTHY MEGACHURCH.

"I know you don't believe in my new direction, but to outright sabotage it? You're better than this, Art."

Art slowly rose to face his boss. "Sabotage? I'd say the story is pretty accurate — except this isn't really your church anymore, is it? You don't have an office here. You don't even attend services anymore. This place is just an afterthought to you—a stepping-stone to Washington."

"Last time I checked, I'm still the senior pastor. So why did you give this interview to Garry Strider?"

"Because you wouldn't talk to him. Because we ought to be telling the world about this instead of guarding it like it was some sort of a national secret."

"Really? Sure looks like sabotage to me." Snow picked up the paper and read an excerpt aloud:

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