Synopses & Reviews
Jet pilot Captain Aloysius Lightfoot O'Brien is learning Aramaic. He's being schooled in the principles of ancient Roman administration, regional topography, religious practices, customs, and ancient Middle Eastern arts. Does the United States government want all her enlisted men educated this way? Not unless they're planning to send them back in time, to first-century Palestine.It all started when a strange man, dressed in black, appeared at Lightfoot's base. There were mutterings of a secret mission, but how could Lightfoot imagine what plans the government had set in motion for him and him alone? Lightfoot has been chosen to be the first man to attempt time travel. He is being sent back to ancient times, where he is expected to prove the validity of the Bible. It's a modern day quest for the Holy Grail, but there is more to it than that. Lightfoot is expected to make contact with a very famous, very influential young teacher who the Romans just happened to crucify for the crime of claiming to be the son of God. This is not just a government operation anymore; for Lightfoot, this is a life-changing journey that may also alter history forever.
Synopsis
TOP SECRET
Many a pulse-pounding story of high adventure has begun with a young military officer volunteering for a dangerous top secret mission, but no mission was ever like this. It was the most carefully guarded secret since the Manhattan Project. It was incredible, impossible, and inconceivable. It was time travel. From the opening scene, when O Brien lands his jet fighter at a desert Air Force base in Nevada to find a mysterious stranger in black waiting for him, to the very last page, Fifth Gospel is compelling. O Brien 's trip is a modern day quest for the Holy Grail, only a thousand times more exciting because he is not searching for an artifact, but is being sent to make contact with one of the most important figures in all human history to speak with a man who was crucified two millennia ago. Join him as he journeys through time and space to meet Jesus of Nazareth face to face.