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©2026
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342 pages ; 24 cm
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"There is no crime to fit this sentence; there is no sentence to fit this crime. Roman Prefect Pontius Pilate's words are echoed by the Judean zealot Judas Iscariot only hours before history takes a bloody turn on a cross atop Golgotha on Calvary Hill. Two thousand years later, these words are found scrawled in blood in a New York City basement under the shadow of three crucified men. Judas, now Jude Issachar, an enigmatic social worker and teacher with an unusual addiction, and Pilate, now Peter Pheiffer, an unsettled attorney of a ravenous law firm, have lived many lifetimes since their original encounter. Jude is aware of his past treachery and is cursed by the fateful lure of the noose and the tree. Peter, however, is damned by a recurring ignorance, a cruel cyclical awakening that is hauntingly dawning on him as he must defend a sociopath's unspeakable crime. Condemned for their role in humanity's most infamous betrayal, a collision of violence and addiction two millennia after their sentences first began brings them together again. The two lost souls must reckon with their tainted pasts--and their damned present--as they seek one last shot at redemption." --