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End of the Spear, Beyond the Gates of Splendor, and Elizabeth Elliot's book Through the Gates of Splendor are available from Christianbook.com and other retail outlets.

More Christianity Today articles on the Ecuador martyrs includes:

The Unfinished Mission to the 'Aucas' | Forty years ago my father, Nate Saint, and four other young missionaries (Jim Elliot, Pete Fleming, Ed McCulley, and Roger Youderian) were speared to death while trying to reach the "Auca" Indians in the Amazon jungles of South America. Today, I have a home among these people—properly called Huaorani—and some of the very men who speared my father have become substitute grandfathers to my children. By Stephen E. Saint (March 2, 1998)

Ecuadorian Martyrs Story on Stage | A new stage production touring the United States is retelling the story of how five missionaries lost their lives in the jungles of Ecuador 40 years ago (Oct. 28, 1996)

>Did They Have to Die? | Forty years after five missionaries lost their lives in the Ecuadorian jungle, the killers explain what really happened. By Steve Saint (Sept. 16, 1996)

Martyrs' Lost Plane Recovered in Ecuador | The skeletal remains of an aircraft, uncovered on a remote beach along a river in Ecuador, are believed to be the lost plane piloted by American missionaries shortly before their murder in 1956. (August 15, 1994)

More about End of the Spear and Beyond the Gates of Splendor from Christianity Today Movies includes:

End of the Spear Big Winner at Heartland | Film about 1956 missionary martyrs in Ecuador wins Film Festival's $50,000 Grand Prize; others also lauded at Crystal Heart Awards Ceremony. (Oct. 17, 2005)

Beyond the Gates of Splendor | This documentary, telling the true story of five American missionaries murdered on a remote sandbar in Ecuador half a century ago, explodes the myth of the noble savage. (Oct. 4, 2005)

From Film Neophyte to Movie Mogul | Before recently, Mart Green had never been in a movie theater, but he's the driving force behind two new films about the 1956 missionary martyrs in Ecuador—and the tribe that killed them. (April 26, 2005)

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January 2006, Vol. 50, No. 1