Meteora 2005

Centurion Gaius Septimus Marcellus is not your typical Roman hero. He is neither brave nor generous, and not even particularly competent.

In the secret service of the procurator of Judea, Pontius Pilate, Marcellus navigates the political underbelly of Jerusalem to uncover the killers of two Roman citizens and to monitor the movements of an Essene leader named Jesus of Nazareth.

However, Marcellus is unaware of a secret jealously guarded in Antioch: a set of letters that cost the lives of several of his mentors—and could also cost him his own.

The Letters of Antioch also offer a new perspective on the events surrounding the arrest, torture, and death of Jesus, and the role played in them by procurator Pontius Pilate and a man named Judas Iscariot.