Intended for Evil, Les Sillars
Intended for Evil, Les Sillars
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Intended for Evil
A Survivor's Story of Love, Faith, and Courage in the Cambodian Killing Fields

Author: Les Sillars

Narrator: Les Sillars

Unabridged: 9 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/12/2024


Synopsis

How do you survive when everything you hold dear has been ripped away?
This is the question Radha Manickam asks himself during the three years and nine months he spends under the merciless rule of the Khmer Rouge. When Khmer Rouge forces take the city of Phnom Penh in 1975, Radha is a new Christian, passionate about living out his faith. Over the next years of his life, 1.7 million of his fellow Cambodians--including most of his own family--will perish due to starvation, disease, and unthinkable violence.
As he strives to hold tight to his faith, he finds that in the midst of hell on earth God has not forgotten him. Forced by the communist regime to marry a woman he doesn't know, Radha discovers that God has a plan for his life that he never would have imagined.
This compelling true story of survival against incredible odds shows that out of war, fear, despair, and betrayal, God can bring hope, faith, courage, and restoration.
"Thoroughly researched and beautifully written, Intended for Evil blazes with vivid detail."-- Lynn Vincent, New York Times bestselling coauthor of Same Kind of Different as Me and Heaven Is for Real

Reviews

Goodreads review by Dean on February 13, 2018

A loud strong voice against inhuman and murderously vicious totalitarian regime at war against his own population!!! Written with much love to the details, and readable like a thriller..... The Khmer Rouge murdered more than 20 percent of Cambodia's population between 1975 and 1979. Radha, a young Chri......more

Goodreads review by Yibbie on October 06, 2016

It’s incredibly sobering. I’m not sure when a book affected me as deeply as this one has. After I finished it, I felt too introspective to write the review. Now that I’ve thought about it over night, I think I’m ready. If you don’t read any farther than this, please let me encourage you. Read this b......more

Goodreads review by Julie on February 13, 2019

So, so hard to read. Hard to believe it is true. But, well worth the look at an often overlooked historical tragedy and the lives of some remarkable people.......more

Goodreads review by Wayne K. Boyd on January 29, 2025

An amazing story of Christian courage…trusting God when it doesn’t seem to make sense.......more

Goodreads review by Sahani on May 25, 2019

What would you feel if you were thrown into the abyss? Not knowing how to find your family or will you ever see them again? These were the thoughts running in Radha's mind. The Manickam family had a lot going on more than what they bargained for. In 1975, when the Khmer Rouge took forces in Phnom Pe......more