He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.
So wrote Jim Elliot at age 22, sweating over Greek roots and patristics at Wheaton College.
Seven years later, writes his widow Elisabeth, he and four other young mensat together
on a strip of white sand on the Curaray River, deep in Ecuadors rain forest, waiting for the
arrival of a group of men whom they loved, but had never metsavage Stone Age killers,
men now known to all the world as Aucas.

The circumstances of the death of these men are by now known throughout the world in one of
the great missionary adventure stories of modern times. But this is the first account of the whole
life of one of thema life that, though hid with Christ in God, was in part revealed in some of the
most poignant and moving spiritual writings of our time. Shadow of the Almighty is a
tremendous biography of an adventurous and inspirational life.