When Sol’s self-destructive habits end in a serious car crash, he wakes up to learn he was clinically dead for four minutes. Being dead isn’t what bothers him. It’s the voice. Five simple words that refuse to let him go: “Daddy, let there be light.”
Izzard Ink delivered end-to-end production on an accelerated schedule—proofreading the manuscript, designing the interior layout, and building press-ready print files. We also coordinated a full press run to ensure the book was printed and ready in time to align with the film’s release.
Sol Harkens is a superstar of atheism—brilliant, brutal, and adored for the way he can dismantle believers in front of a cheering crowd. But when he survives a brush with death, Sol is haunted by something he can’t explain away: the tunnel of light, the sense of peace—and the face of the son he lost.
The experience doesn’t make Sol holy. It makes him furious… and desperate for answers. And it pulls him back into the orbit of Katy—his ex-wife, his intellectual match, and the one person who knows the real cost of their grief. Then Katy receives devastating news: an inherited syndrome that has led to a stage-four brain tumor. Time is running out.
Together, Sol and Katy turn one haunting phrase—“Let there be light”—into a daring global act: on the darkest night of the year, millions of people raising their phone lights to the sky, while the app channels real help to local food banks and invites searching hearts to ask bigger questions. As the light spreads across the world, Sol must decide what he believes about love, loss, and eternity—before the woman he never stopped loving slips beyond his reach.
Based on the screenplay by Sam Sorbo & Dan Gordon, Let There Be Light is the powerful novelization of the film—funny, heartbreaking, and ultimately redemptive.
Category: Religious Books
Release date: October 10, 2017
Page size: 5″ x 8″
Word count: 58,093
Estimated page count: 244
Dan Gordon is the screen writer of such movies as The Hurricane (Denzel Washington), Wyatt Earp (Kevin Costner), Murder in the First (Kevin Bacon and Gary Oldman), Passenger 57 (Wesley Snipes) and was the head writer on the Michael Landon Television series, Highway to Heaven. Let There Be Light’ is Gordon’s 17th feature length film, and ninth novel. He has five produced plays which have appeared Off and On Broadway and in the West End of London, including “Irena’s Vow” nominated for Best Broadway Play by the Outer Circle Critics’ Awards. He is also co-founder of the Zaki Gordon Cinematic Arts Center at Liberty University.
This story has so many twists and turns, it’s a roller-coaster! Joyful, tearful, but ultimately, hopeful…Let there be light, indeed!
Dan Gordon has not written your usual faith film novelization. It is funny, hip, heartbreaking, and redemptive, and a thoroughly great and entertaining read.
Let There Be Light is a movie with a heart. Moving beyond entertainment to realistic life issues, it brings light to our darkened world through a story that finds wholeness in the midst of our most pressing concerns.
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