The Reluctant Spy: A Novel Set in 1st-Century Palestine

Eight months ago, Jonathan, an impoverished village scribe taught by the Pharisees, committed a grievous sin. God hounds him to atone. His wife miscarries. Demons possess his child. Jonathan spirals into despair. Blackmailed into spying - first on John the Baptizer, then on Yeshua, the itinerant preacher and exorcist - Jonathan reluctantly leaves his home in Jericho. Dutifully, he records the puzzling happenings that occur around both men. In the dark abyss of a crisis of faith, his jealousy prompts him to ask, "Why does God work through these men and not through me?" Moving between Jerusalem, the Jordan, Jericho, and the Galilee, this saga asks the niggling question: "Just how far will a man go to protect his honor? Will he put everyone and everything - even his marriage and his relationship with God - in jeopardy?"