The turn of the millennium saw Peretti's departure from writing his popular novels. The Visitation landed at #19 on the New York Times Bestseller list and was adapted into a film in 2006. The Oath, generally regarded as one of Peretti's greater works, has sold more than one million copies, and received the ECPA Gold Medallion Book Award for Best Fiction in 1996. Throughout the 1990s, Peretti continued to write full-time, releasing Prophet (1992), The Oath (1995), and The Visitation (1999).

Peretti also took the characters from his first work The Door in the Dragon's Throat and used them to write The Cooper Kids Adventure Series, releasing seven more titles that contained the same Indiana Jones-style adventures similar to The Door in the Dragon's Throat. Combined, This Present Darkness and Piercing the Darkness have sold 3.5 million copies. Peretti followed This Present Darkness with a sequel Piercing the Darkness (1989), another tremendous success.

The book remained on the Christian Booksellers Association's top ten best-sellers list for over 150 consecutive weeks, and has as of 2013 sold over 2.7 million copies worldwide. Although This Present Darkness was not an immediate success, sales improved with word of mouth, particularly after singer Amy Grant promoted the book. A year later, he published This Present Darkness (1986), his most famous and popular novel to date. While working at a ski factory, Peretti wrote and published a well-received adventure story for children, The Door in the Dragon's Throat (1985).

In 1983, he gave up his pastoring position and began taking construction jobs to make ends meet. Later, he studied English, screen writing and film at UCLA, and then assisted his father in pastoring a small Assembly of God church. After graduating from high school, he began playing banjo with a local bluegrass group. Peretti was a natural storyteller who, as a child in Seattle, regularly told stories to neighborhood children. Peretti was born in Lethbridge in southern Alberta, Canada, but raised in Seattle, Washington for most of his life. He now lives in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho with his wife, Barbara. Peretti has held ministry credentials with the Assemblies of God, and formerly played the banjo in a bluegrass band called Northern Cross. Peretti is best known for his novels This Present Darkness (1986) and Piercing the Darkness (1989). He has been described by the New York Times as creating the Christian thriller genre. As of 2012, his works have sold over 15 million copies worldwide. Frank Edward Peretti (born January 13, 1951) is a New York Times best-selling author of Christian fiction, whose novels primarily focus on the supernatural.

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