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""A bold, ambitious, sprawling epic of literary fiction . . . Grace establishes a sense of timeless terror from the very first page."" -SAN FRANCISCO BOOK REVIEW 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 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 New York next to three crucified men hanging on a basement wall. Judas, now Jude Issachar, an enigmatic social worker and part-time professor, and Pontius, now Peter Pheiffer, an unsettled defense attorney at a ravenous global law firm, have lived many lifetimes since their original encounter. However, Jude is aware of his past and is cursed by the fateful lure of the noose and the tree. Peter is damned by a recurring ignorance, a cruel cyclical awakening that creeps up on him as he is compelled to defend a sociopath who crucified three men. Condemned for their role in humankind's darkest betrayal, they must reckon with their pasts-and their futures-after a fateful, bloody collision of violence and addiction two millennia after their sentence began brings these lost souls together once more.

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""Grace writes with a strong ear for rhythm, and he knows how to build tension across scenes that feel grounded and immediate. This debut aims high, and it hits its mark.""-BOOK TRIB ""Grace uses these infamous characters as a means of playfully questioning notions of infamy, evil, and the tendency to become mired in the past . . . "" -KIRKUS REVIEWS ""A gripping, dramatic, layered tale of biblical forces . . . There is an exquisite quality to the language that makes every page riveting . . ."" -INDEPENDENT BOOK REVIEW ""Treats time like a loop rather than a line, and rarely lets the reader off the hook . . . The prose is lush and sensory, full of heat, dust, blood, and cramped city air."" -LITERARY TITAN ""A fusion of thought-provoking speculative fiction, gritty crime thriller, and deep dive into reimagined Christian mythology . . ."" -BLUE INK ""Grace's debut thriller plummets readers into themes of justice and mercy that echo through millennia . . . Grace's unsettling mix of spiritual quagmire and supernatural mystery gives the book's suffocating atmosphere serious weight . . . "" -BOOK LIFE ""A masterful thriller that intertwines supernatural and psychological elements . . . Daniel Grace proves to be a master storyteller."" -READERS' FAVORITE

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DANIEL GRACE is a London born, California bred, former owner of an international advertising agency who produces critically acclaimed Tuscan wines at his family winery, Il Molino di Grace, in Panzano-in-Chianti, Italy. He is a storyteller by trade and a mythologist at heart. Daniel splits his time between San Francisco and Tuscany with his wife, three daughters and English Setter.In the Wake of Golgotha is his debut novel.

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