Kuiper, Jerry

PERSONAL: Married; wife's name Sheri.

ADDRESSES: Home—Fox Valley, WI. Office—PMB #777, 772 Jamacha Rd., El Cajon, CA 92019. Agent—c/o Author Mail, Zondervan, 5300 Patterson SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49530.

CAREER: Save a Friend ministries, founder; Save a Friend Radio Hour, host.

WRITINGS:

(With Jack Cavanaugh) Death Watch (novel), Zondervan (Grand Rapids, MI), 2005.

Also author of Christian Bridge Builder Resource Manual for Evangelism.

SIDELIGHTS: Wisconsin native Jerry Kuiper is the founder of the Save a Friend ministries. With his wife Sheri, he hosts the Save a Friend Radio Hour in Southern California. His first novel, Death Watch, a mystery co-written by Jack Cavanaugh, follows the adventures of Sydney St. James, a television reporter living in Los Angeles. Sydney is accustomed to being assigned the fluff pieces for the network, so it comes as something of a shock when she finds herself in the middle of covering a terrorist plot that has even the experts perplexed. When people start to die after receiving terrorist threats, Sydney relies on her evangelical Christian faith and the strength of an unlikely partner to pull her through. Jill Elizabeth Nelson, in a review for Romantic Times.com, opined that the authors "keep the pages turning with a fast-paced plot." A contributor for Publishers Weekly remarked that the book "gives readers intrigue as well as sacrificial characters who make tough decisions and take great risk to do what they think is right." In a review for the Wisconsin Christian News, a contributor remarked that "the ending leaves readers hanging just a tad … but it makes a refreshing change from the expected perfectly pat conclusion."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Publishers Weekly, May 16, 2005, review of Death Watch, p. 41.

ONLINE

Romantic Times.com, http://www.romantictimes.com/ (October 17, 2005), Jill Elizabeth Nelson, review of Death Watch.

Save a Friend.com, http://www.saveafriend.com/ (October 17, 2005), "Jerry Kuiper."

Wisconsin Christian News.com, http://www.wisconsinchristiannews.com/ (October 17, 2005), "Wisconsin Author Releases New Novel."