Samuel.
Dwayne knew better than to offer his hand.
Samuel’s gloved hands hung at his sides.
“I wanted to thank you for making sure Caroline and the baby got away safe,” Dwayne said.
“Perhaps it balances the unpleasantness in Judea,” Samuel said and met Caroline’s pleading eyes. “In any case, it matters a great deal that we keep your child safe from Neal Harnesh.”
“We’re good for now? Or are you here with another warning?” Caroline asked, eyes shifting to the street and behind them.
“This is a secure place and time. Sir Neal’s agents are impeded for now. They will pick up the threads soon enough.”
“We didn’t just happen to run into you window shopping,” Dwayne said.
“No. I am here to ask you and the others for a favor,” Samuel said.
“I can’t speak for the others, but I’m here for whatever you need, Samuel. I owe you a debt I’ll spend a lifetime repaying. What’s the favor?” Dwayne asked.
Samuel regarded them both with a grave expression before answering.
“To go back to Nevada and get my father.”
Afterword
A Few Historical Notes
This is a work of fiction. Thus, I made a lot of this stuff up.
There were no Twenty-third or Thirtieth Legions in the Roman army. I wanted to spare any legion that did exist the embarrassment of having their ancient asses kicked by four guys and a girl. And to step around any true scholars who would race to point out that any real legion I might have chosen had never been in Judea or had been trudging through Hispania at the time of this novel.
Everything else about the legions is from all the reading I’ve done over the years. Blame Tacitus if I got something wrong. I think he has a Facebook page.
Little is known of Valerius Gratus, the Roman prefect of Judea at the time of Christ’s youth. I’m sure he wasn’t a heroin addict, and have no proof he was a pedophile. But every good story needs a hero, a villain, and a wretch. Poor Gratus fills that last role. I’m pretty certain he wasn’t a nice guy. Nice guys didn’t get sent to Palestine back then.
And I have Pilate taking over for him a few years earlier than that actually happened.
The life of Jesus between his birth and his early adulthood are a tabula rasa. Other than ancillary legends (like the ones the nuns taught us) created long after the fact, we have no knowledge of his life. And we certainly have no idea of what he looked like. I have a sneaking suspicion he looked nothing like Jeffrey Hunter. I specifically avoided directly portraying Christ, since it was not dramatically necessary to my story, and I’m not out to offend anyone.
As for the siege of Paris in 1871, I took some liberties there. The events I portray did happen. The barrage, the horrific counterattack attempted by the citizens of Paris, the crowning of Kaiser Wilhelm I at Versailles are all real events. All I did was to telescope them into a shorter period of time. Things moved swiftly from siege to surrender, but not as swiftly as I present here. And, moving beyond the events of the novel, the Prussians did eventually occupy part of the city, as agreed upon in the very civilized surrender terms between the two armies. It was a brief occupation, and France eventually agreed to pay an enormous amount of money to get the Germans to go home. Otto von Bismarck got what he wanted out of the war—a united German state. Things would not go so easily the next time these nations clashed.
And unlike Lee Hammond, I did not read Bill O’Reilly’s book.
Chuck Dixon
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About the Author
Chuck Dixon is the prolific author of thousands of comic book scripts for Batman and Robin, the Punisher, Nightwing, Conan the Barbarian, Airboy, the Simpsons, Alien Legion, and countless other titles.
Together with Graham Nolan, Chuck created the now iconic Batman villain Bane. He also wrote the international bestselling graphic novel adaptation of J.R.R Tolkien’s The Hobbit.
His first foray into prose, the SEAL Team 6 novels from Dynamite Entertainment, have become an ebook sensation. He currently scripts GI Joe Special Missions for IDW publishing as well as the Pellucidar weekly comic strip for ERB Inc.
He calls Florida home these days.
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