Acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Tosca Lee brilliantly adapts the life of Judas Iscariot into a dazzling work of fiction-humanizing the man whose very name is synonymous with betrayal.
Based on extensive research into the life and times of Judas Iscariot this triumph of fiction storytelling by the author of Havah: The Story of Eve revisits one of biblical history's most maligned figures and brings the world he inhabited vividly to life.
In Jesus Judas believes he has found the One-the promised Messiah and future king of the Jews destined to overthrow Roman rule. Galvanized he joins the Nazarene's followers ready to enact the change he has waited for all his life. But soon Judas's vision of a nation free from Rome is crushed by the inexplicable actions of the Nazarene himself who will not bow to social or religious convention-who seems in the end to even turn against his own people. At last Judas must confront the fact that the master he loves is not the liberator he hoped for but a man bent on a drastically different agenda.
Iscariot is the story of Judas from his tumultuous childhood to his emergence as the man known to the world as the betrayer of Jesus. But even more it is a singular and surprising view into the life of Jesus that forces us to reexamine everything we thought we knew about the most famous-and infamous-religious icons in history.
