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Terror By Night
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Item Description...
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After losing his family, home, and possessions, Terry Caffey, the sole surviving victim of a brutal Texas murder, reveals how God intervened and helped him turn his life around.
Publishers Description
At 3:00 a.m. on March 1, 2008, Terry Caffey awoke to find his daughter's boyfriend standing in his bedroom with a gun. An instant later the teen opened fire, killing Terry's wife, his two sons, and wounding him 12 times, before setting the house ablaze. Terry fell into deep depression and planned to kill himself, but God intervened. Upon visiting his burned-out property, Terry noticed a scorched scrap of paper from one of his wife's books leaning against a tree trunk. The page read: " God, ] I couldn't understand why You would take my family and leave me behind to struggle along without them. And I guess I still don't totally understand that part of it. But I do believe that You're sovereign; You're in control." That page was like a direct message from God, and it turned Terry's life around. Now, one year later, Terry is remarried, the adoptive father of two young sons, and working to rebuild his relationship with his 17-year-old daughter, who is currently serving two life sentences in a Texas state penitentiary for her involvement in the crimes. "Terror by Night" tells the compelling story of how Terry Caffey found peace after his wife and sons were brutally murdered and his teenage daughter implicated in the crime. Sharing never-before-told details about the night of the crime and subsequent murder trial, it explains how Terry was able to forgive the men who murdered his family, and how he even interceded with the prosecutors on their behalf. A powerful example of how the power of forgiveness can bring healing after tragedy and great loss, it shows how God can bring good out of even the darkest tragedies. |
Item Specifications...
Pages 261
Dimensions: Length: 1" Width: 6.25" Height: 9.5"
Weight: 1.05 lbs.
Binding Hardcover
Release Date Sep 1, 2009
Publisher Tyndale House Publishers
ISBN 1414334761
EAN 9781414334769
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 | Convenient Truth May 12, 2010 |
Terry Caffey's account of how and why his family was murdered is really a disappointing and unrealistic story. The reader is left with the nagging question of why he didn't add a chapter about his relationship with his daughter before this all happened. It appears that the evidence that put his daughter in jail proved that it was not her boyfriend alone who murdered her family. And daughters don't decide to murder their parents just because of a boyfriend.
As far as his plea that the boys (who were sentenced first) get life without parole, this appears to be a Christian motivation. But from what I could tell, it was only so his daughter would get a lighter sentence than she would have otherwise. If those boys had gotten the death penalty, she would have gotten life without parole. He actually expects "daddy's little girl," as he endearingly writes several times, to be out of jail. But even before reading those words, I realized that this is "his" account, and it really couldn't be called a true account by anyone else.
I say these things not because I grudge him the right to write what he wants, but I worry that the public will not look at the facts about his daughter in the future since he downplayed her premeditated and physical involvement. Because of his motivations, I think readers will get more facts about the incident by surfing the web. The author's account of his Christian witness in forgiving the boys rings false when he places the blame on them, especially the boyfriend, and not on his daughter, too. The more of us who read this book with its partial truths, the more likely Erin Caffey will be out walking around some day. There are so many inspirational and valuable stories about Christian witness to read, I wish I hadn't wasted my time on Terry Caffey's.
| | |  | Unlikely forgiveness Apr 27, 2010 |
It would be impossible to write this book without God's grace. Like others, it was difficult for me to put the book down once started. Can anyone truly imagine the horrors Terry faced? In the usual run of life, we all face problems...some easy and some pretty tough..but nothing like Caffey's. It would be hard enough to lose a family member, a spouse, a friend through an act of murder but to have most of his family gunned down and having to crawl to safety when his home was torched,,nearly unbelievable. Hollywood might conjure up such a story but to know this was non-fiction made it even the more horrific. Confronted with all the distress, it would be easy to identify with Caffey when he thought about ending it all. The book moves from extreme ugliness to a brighter day for all involved... as God made something good from the bad. Did God cause the 'terror?' Hardly! In ways we have difficulty understanding, bad things happen to a lot of good people... evidence we live in a fallen world. Those who love God also know that He makes things better, the promise of Romans 8:28.
We may often find ourselves with hurtful feelings toward others and don't see forgiveness as a possibility. Caffey felt that way; who could blame him? Yet God was in the picture and brought happiness to replace the doom and despair. This account needs to be read by many, as a reminder that even when things are tough, God is there..and He's been there all along. | | |  | BOOK REVIEW Mar 24, 2010 |
| TERROR BY NIGHT was purchased as a gift for someone else so I did not read it. However, I had excellent service and assume it is a very worthwhile book to read. | | | | A book you cannot put down Feb 13, 2010 |
I picked up this book and, utterly unable to tear my eyes from the pages, read it straight through, forgoing dinner and everything else I was so absorbed.
The author, Terry Caffey, lived through the greatest agony imaginable--the brutal murder, not only of his much loved wife of many decades, but of his two young sons. In one terrible night, three killers attacked the family and then set fire to the house. They spared no one. In an act of utter callousness, the killers hunted down the youngest son and knifed him to death.
The author himself was shot three times, once in the head. It is a mystery that he even survived those bullets. Even granted that he miraculously lived through the gunfire, how, how did he find the strength, bleeding and desperate, to stagger out of his home, which the killers had left a burning inferno? And then, how did he manage to crawl across underbrush to make it to help?
But the real core of the book is Terry Caffey's tortured realization that the killers who attacked and slaughtered his family were, apparently, led by a member of his own family. I won't say anything more here to spoil the story for you, but the truth is shocking.
It was sheer grace that he could face this person later, and find the grace to forgive and go on living.
Truly, this is one of those rare books that you will never forget. | | | | Good book Feb 8, 2010 |
| I enjoyed reading this book. Very interesting story and a perfect example of unconditional love. Not everyone will understand this father's ability to forgive his daugter but I don't understand how God forgives me but He does. This may not be the absolute best written book ever but if you are like me and enjoy a true story without all the curse words or adult themes that are in most secular true crime books this book is for you. | | | Write your own review about Terror By Night
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