Books by David Aikman
Qi – A Novel
2005 B & H Publishing Group
Richard Ireton is a Hong Kong-based foreign correspondent for an American weekly news magazine. When he is sent to Guangdong, the Chinese province adjacent to Hong Kong, to investigate the disappearance of Chuck McHale, a missing American, he discovers there are dangerous new political currents flowing through South China.
In the middle of these developments are practitioners of Qigong, a Taoist meditation and martial arts movement, who are rallying around their Great Master Wu. These fiercely anti-foreign Qigong adherents have allied with renegade forces of the Chinese army, and Ireton learns that together they pose a dangerous new threat to peace in Asia and relations with the United States. Ireton's hunt for McHale, who has run afoul of these Qigong army elements, brings him into the heart of China's underground "house church" movement, where McHale has sought refuge.
2005 ECPA (Evangelical Christian Publishers Association) Gold Medallion Book Award Finalist
Eleven months on the ECPA Christian Bestsellers List!
Now available in Chinese in major bookstores across China!
David Aikman, veteran journalist and former senior correspondent for Time Magazine, pens this behind-the-scenes account of President Bush’s journey to faith. Through interviews with Bush’s closest friends and family members, Aikman provides a revealing look at how the president’s faith impacts his life, his policies and our world.
(Go to the "Interviews" link at left for David Aikman's interviews with media from around the world about the President's faith.)
Second Edition -- revised and updated -- due for release in both the United States and Britain in October 2006.
David Aikman, former Time Magazine bureau chief in Beijing, provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date book-length report on the remarkable spread of Christianity across China. From China’s first contact with Christianity in 635 A.D., Aikman recounts the gripping story of how Chinese across the country and from all walks of life are today turning to a life of faith, and how this phenomenon could transform this Asian giant.
(Go to the "Interviews" link at left for David Aikman's interviews with media from around the world about the church in China.)
From his unique vantage point as a foreign correspondent for Time Magazine, David Aikman witnessed many of the most important world events of the past three decades and interviewed many of the most prominent world figures of the time. In Great Souls, Aikman profiles six individuals -- Billy Graham, Mother Teresa, Pope John Paull II, Nelson Mandela, Elie Wiesel and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -- who have not only dramatically changed the world in unparalleled ways but whose lives are rare examples of moral and spiritual excellence.
In this insightful account of Pope John Paul II's life, Aikman follows the prelate from his childhood in Poland to becoming one of the world's most influential leaders. The April 2005 funeral of John Paul II was testament to how this pope irrevocably changed history.
Reviews of David Aikman's books
September 2, 2004
Christianity Today reviews Jesus in Beijing, February 18, 2004
Crosswalk/Agape Press reviews Jesus in Beijing
Columns in Charisma Magazine
