Acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Books of Mortals series brilliantly adapts the life of Judas Iscariot into a dazzling work of fictionโhumanizing 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 historyโs most maligned figures and brings the world he inhabited vividly to life.
In Jesus, Judas believes he has found the Oneโthe promised Messiah and future king of the Jews, destined to overthrow Roman rule. Galvanized, he joins Nazareneโs followers, ready to enact the change he has waited for all his life. But soon Judasโs vision of a nation free from Rome is crushed by the inexplicable actions of Nazarene himself, who will not bow to social or religious conventionโand seems, in the end, to even turn against his own people. At last, Judas confronts the fact that the master he loves is not the liberator he hoped for, but a man bent on a drastically different agenda.
Praised as โan absolute must-readโ (New York Times bestselling author Ted Dekker), Iscariot is the story of Judas, from his tumultuous childhood to his emergence as the man who betrayed 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 famousโand infamousโreligious icons in history.