You might think John R. Little is taking a risk with the title of his new book. Well, so should you.
First of all, we need to establish that The Murder of Jesus Christ is NOT about the story most of us are familiar with. This is definitely a work of fiction.
It's a story told by David Abelman, currently serving a life sentence at Leavenworth.
In his life before prison, David was a renowned science photographer recently assigned to cover the launch of the spaceship, Sagan. As luck would have it, one member of the five-person crew was his former girlfriend, Karen Anderson. The mission was to the far side of the moon to investigate the source of radio waves. Aliens? Wait, it gets stranger.
David is Jewish and lost more than a few ancestors to the Holocaust. Before his ninety-two-year-old grandmother dies, she tells him of...
"...an ancient type of magic called Shel jah, which I’m sure you’ve never heard of. Not many people have. It’s Jewish magic, and it’s all but disappeared now, but it was a powerful tool for thousands of years...What is it? Shel jah provides a limited ability to control time. Yes, time."
Can you guess where this is headed? David does what he does with the best of intentions, but things don't turn out quite the way he expected.
I've already said more than I probably should, but really, I've just scratched the surface. There are numerous surprises sprinkled throughout the story.
Despite the fantastic nature of The Murder of Jesus Christ, I found the work to be wholly, or should I say "holy," entertaining and incredibly imaginative.
Recommended.
Published by Bad Moon Books, The Murder of Jesus Christ will be available as a signed, limited-edition, hardcover, and trade paperback.
From the author's bio - John R. Little is an award-winning author of suspense, dark fantasy, and horror. He currently lives in Ayr, a small town near Kitchener, Canada, and is always at work on his next book. John has published more than15 books to date.
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