Escape from the Eagle's Nest from the Lamplighter Collection takes place in Afghanistan in 1867. Abandoned and alone, Walter faces a moral dilemma that lands him in the midst of a ruthless, hostile land. Even though he saves the chief's child from the mouth of a lion, he still faces certain death from his Islamic captors. But Walter lives with the 'sentence of death in himself already, that he should not trust in himself, but in God, who raises the dead' (2 Corinthians 1:9).
