Maya Hope By Timothy Browne

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I really enjoyed the intrigue of Dr Nicklaus Hart’s story. I would describe the story as a Robin Cook medical thriller meets a Clive Cussler adventure. Those are two of my favorite authors so the combo is really fabulous!

Dr Hart is a man you want to root for; he’s intelligent, principled, caring and passionate about the field of medicine. His day to day life is in a bit of a rut. He is working for a hospital that cares more about the dollar bills than the patients and it’s starting to wear on him. When his best friend is killed while serving in a mission in Guatemala, he’s suddenly thrust into a world that lights a fire in him again. He is caring for patients who truly need him and building bonds with other charity-minded Christians. In the process of helping these children, dealing with his grief and investigating his friend's murder he is ardently hoping to find the hand of God upon him in a way he’s never felt before.

I enjoyed the ride of the novel. There was lovely bits of adventure as well as historical and cultural tidbits that I was utterly wrapped up in. Being in the medical field myself, I always love that aspect of a novel as well although I must say, it was perhaps a bit much reading about a devastating virus through the lens of 2020. I appreciated the depth of Nick’s character and that he wasn’t some archetype hero lost in toxic masculinity but a man who relied on courage when needed and was truly vulnerable at times.

Thanks to the author for sharing this story with me in exchange for my honest opinion. Maya Hope What could be better than a medical thriller written by a physician? Not since COMA by Robin Cook, and The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton, have I been this excited about a medical thriller. Author and physician Timothy D. Browne's Maya Hope offers a devastating medical what-if scenario and then he backs it up with layers of believable science and human nature. The story is set in the medical mission field, those end-of-the-earth places where people suffer from lack of medical care. Places the rest of the world ignores. Places where the poor are the most vulnerable. Take a thrill ride to the remote villages of Guatemala where something is happening to the villagers that a visiting physician cannot ignore or explain until he digs deeper into unspeakable danger. Maya Hope First, I have to confess. Medical thriller is not my genre, so MAYA HOPE was a new reading experience for me. Here's what I love about this book. According to the back cover, the author is a practicing surgeon who has traveled the world as a medical missionary. In his author's note at the end of the book, he states that the issues that drive the story are based on truth and his experiences. Because of this, the story is written with an authority that makes it so believable...and believable makes a thriller that much more thrilling! If this is your genre, you're going to love MAYA HOPE. If this isn't your genre...you're going to love MAYA HOPE! Maya Hope Well written medical thriller.

Really enjoyed the medical portions of this book and the international conspiracy was intriguing.
But it's certainly Christian fiction and the continual references and Bible quotes became a little cloying at times.
The main character, Nick, was interesting though and the North Korean terrorist plot kept me glued to the page. Enjoyed it enough that I've purchased the sequel, The Tree of Life, and am looking forward to seeing what Nick finds himself entangled in next.
Maya Hope I really enjoyed Timothy Browne’s excellent novel: Maya Hope. Dr. Nicklaus Hart’s missionary best friend is murdered in Guatemala. Dr. Hart, a trauma surgeon, is devastated by the news and goes to Guatemala to help finish the work that his friend was doing. While there, he searches for his friend’s killer. This leads him into a dangerous situation with a deadly North Korean plot. Maya Hope is well-written, fast-moving, heart-touching and especially surprising. Like another reviewer, I wondered how much of what Browne has written was based in truth. The plot is both feasible and terrifying. This novel is full of love, humor, inspiration, and thought-provoking moments. I highly recommend Maya Hope to anyone who likes medicine, thrillers, literary visits to other countries, or just a story with a lot of good heart and surprises. Maya Hope

Interesting combination of North Korean bio-terrorism and Christian ministry in the heart of Guatemala. The author smoothly takes the reader back-and-forth between locations – primarily Pyongyang and the Hope Center mission facility. This is an inspiring Christian faith-based story with lots of action and some humor included. It took me a while to warm up to Dr. Nick Hart but he becomes more like-able as his faith grows.

He believed you give your very best to the poor, not your leftovers.”

As it turned out, Tikal was exactly where the virus was found. It was very much dormant and very much present. Its only mutation was that it was no longer contagious to humans. But that was easy to overcome; Kwon and his team supercharged its infectious nature.

Buck looked Nick in the eyes and smiled. “Well, nothing that a little mouth-to-mouth and a few chest compressions couldn’t solve.” Nick opened his eyes wide, realizing what Buck had done for him, and then he cracked up. “I’ve been wondering why my sternum is so sore. And why I’ve had this overwhelming urge to brush my teeth over and over.”
Maya Hope I really enjoyed this book. It is a little bit scary with everything going on in the world at the moment but what seems like a plot to an interesting mystery, has the potential to become reality, so please any bad guys don't read or listen to this book. I enjoyed it because so much was happening, there is a lot of religious quotes but I think because it takes place mainly in Guatemala that it was appropriate. The contrast to the hospitals in the two countries is really well done and you definitely get a sense of what It is like. It is a medical thriller, so at times you did have your heart in your mouth but it certainly keeps you hooked from the start until the end. Off to start the next book.
Nick a busy trauma surgeon is no stranger to death but when his best friend is brutally murdered in Guatemala he takes it hard. When he flies out for the funeral he learns about the good work his friend had been carrying out and seeing his wife trying to carry on without him, Nick makes a judgement call and decides to stay for a few weeks. Here he is faced with surgeries that are life threatening to the patients but normal everyday operations back home. Unable to cope with the demands for his services especially when a high number of cases are for the same thing Nick enlists help from fellow doctors. Is there a reason so many children have club feet? Why has the birth rate in the area dropped to zero? Nick and his friends start to ask these important questions and in doing so uncover a sinister plot by the North Korea one that might just have lead to his best friends death.
I liked the narrator and thought he used a good a variety of voices to bring the characters to life in this jail biting adventure.
I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review. Maya Hope Faith Inspired Writing at It’s Best!
I am almost speechless! Just finished Dr Timothy Browne’s first book ‘Maya Hope’ & I am so deeply touched by his ability to witness thru his writing...beautiful, poignant, & necessary are the best terms I can find to describe his work in this novel! What a blessing to have found ‘his work’... both the author’s & our Lord’s... wrapped up in an exciting novel. I am thrilled to find another very adept writer to expand my Faith based author category! I have enjoyed many Ted Dekker & Frank Peretti novels (more fantasy based storylines, w/often more subtle Faith notes) but I must admit, Timothy’s bold Christianity throughout his writing is a true gift for my eyes, heart, & soul!
I’m captivated by lyrical prose, demonstrated proficiently by Dean Koontz; but inspiring & expanding my faith has only been accomplished by my reading of our Holy Bible & now a simple, albeit fictional, story written by Dr Timothy Browne!
God bless you & your family Dr Browne & thank you for the love of Jesus that shines throughout this novel!
Can’t wait to start the next book In his series.
I’m truly in awe Maya Hope Feels Like You're There.

*See Note below for cautions.
This book puts you in the center of the action. Which can be a really good thing, and sometimes very scary. I loved the miracles that occurred. My parents were missionaries in Guatemala, so some of the story felt like I was listening to them all over again. None of the 'miracles' stretched my imagination or seemed impossible because I know from first hand accounts that those things really happen.

Dr. Hart was really well written. His character growth was awesome. Maggie and Anna were fantastic examples of Christ's love. As painful as it was, that's exactly what we're called to do. I hope I can live up to half their example.

I didn't find the book preachy at all. Most of the 'spirtiual conversations' were between Christians, and while there is a conversion, it's not really an evangelical book.

I think (even reading this in April 2020) the idea of engineering an ancient virus to cause a global catastrophe in such a sneaky way was very clever/believable. I'm looking forward to the rest of this series.

*Cautions: The prologue is very intense, and not for the faint of heart. If you're squeamish, I'd skip it.
Chapter 1 is intense and uncomfortable in a whole other way. If I didn't know for a fact that the whole book wouldn't be like that, I would have given up. I don't like reading about flings. This chapter is NOT graphic, just sets the stage for where Dr Nick is in life, so the light of Jesus shines clearly in later parts of the book.

I purchased this book on Amazon when it was free. I chose to leave a review, and all thoughts are my own. Maya Hope Christians through prayer and courageous action save the world from a humanity-ending viral attack. The grace of God reverses the Noah Initiative. A doctor heals some impoverished natives in a Central American jungle and comes to see the light of the Lord. A vision in a dream moves a brutal dictator toward Christ the Savior, Lamb of God. Maya Hope

Maya Hope is a Christian medical thriller with a message of redemption. It takes the reader from the operating rooms of a trauma hospital in Memphis, to the sweltering jungles of Guatemala, to the unpredictable tyranny of North Korea.

Doctor Nicklaus Hart’s best friend, a medical missionary, is found stretched over a sacrificial stone at the foot of the Temple of the Great Jaguar of Tikal, Guatemala—his heart removed. When Nick visits Guatemala looking for answers to his friend’s murder he finds new meaning in his own life, as his skill as an orthopedic surgeon is quickly put to use addressing the mission hospital’s overwhelming medical need. When Nick searches for answers to the slaying of his beloved friend, his adventure to remote villages reveals a North Korean bioterrorist plot and soon Nick and his team’s lives are in danger. Maya Hope