The Story
"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.
Author: Daniel Grace
Publisher: Koehler Books
Published: 03/03/2026
Pages: 356
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.42lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.94d
ISBN: 9798888248966
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/0001
BlueInk Review 01/27/2026
PW Booklife Reviews 02/09/2026
About the Author
Grace, Daniel: - 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.
Description
"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.
Author: Daniel Grace
Publisher: Koehler Books
Published: 03/03/2026
Pages: 356
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.42lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.94d
ISBN: 9798888248966
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/0001
BlueInk Review 01/27/2026
PW Booklife Reviews 02/09/2026
About the Author
Grace, Daniel: - 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.
