Review Request: What if Jesus had not been the only Messiah?

[J.L.]

Hi all,

Here’s another one that could really use some reviews. It is a strange child ― being something of a crossover of thriller, historical fiction, weird romance and Hollywood insider yarn, if that makes any sense. If you feel so inclined I would love to hear how you think it all works.

Here’s the blurb from Amazon:

“Fleeing the collapsing South immediately after the Civil War, two sailors from the Confederate Navy believe they have avoided a hangman’s noose by sailing to Alexandria, Egypt — where, to escape the blistering summer heat, they hole up in the warren of catacombs beneath the city, eventually to discover the bricked-up grave of the infamous 1st Century historian Titus Flavius Josephus. What they discover in that tomb sets into motion a train of events and intrigue spanning a timeline from the 1st Century AD to the 21st Century.

This is not time travel or fantasy. Josephus was an actual historian, a stubborn survivor, a tangible actor in the imperial machinations of the time and a very complex individual who suffered horrible experiences but lived to a ripe old age and survived all of his tormentors (with conjecture that he cut some of their throats). This is his story and it is the first book specifically dedicated to this extraordinary man's life story. The book strictly follows the historical documentation and fictionalizes only when the historical record is silent.”

The opening lines:

“The scrolls of Titus Flavius Josephus (General, Historian, Priest, Traitor, Assassin, Conjurer, Jew — and Messiah) were unearthed on June 23, 1865.

I wasn’t there, and neither were you.

But my kinsman and ancestor was there, and this is his account of those events. I suppose he is just slightly more credible than any of the other conniving scoundrels involved. These include myself, a couple of Roman Emperors, Josephus and possibly another famous messiah who has left a slightly different account on moldy scraps of parchment and papyrus written by equally shifty front-men and barkers, all with distinctive holy agendas. That mish-mash of Greek and Latin documents has come down to us to be known as the Holy Bible. Yes, that Bible.

And as long as we are dropping famous names around, let’s blame the whole mess on Napoleon. Yeah, that one.”

So:

I will be more than happy to send an email attachment in .mobi or PDF (or whatever else that you might request and I can actually produce). Or if you are lucky enough to have a Kindle Unlimited account you can download it for free from Amazon at the following location:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07...

Here’s my email address:
JeffreyLGates@Outlook.com

Thanks in advance for helping out (and congratulations on getting a great one-of-a-kind novel to read in the process).

Oh yeah:

The title of the book is #TrueMessiahs. And yes, it is in hashtag format, but you don’t find out until the very last page why that is so…