The Golgotha Gate

About the Book

Love, passion,tragedy, humour, cruelty, violence, murder, saintliness, and compassion. Joe Richardson experiences them all as he enters different lives across centuries of time. The key to his journey from the present to the past is hypnosis and pre-birth regression -- but once the key has been turned Richardson and hypnotherapist John Kirkham find they are no longer in control of events. An unwilling and increasingly fearful Richardson is fated to pass through the Golgotha Gate to participate in and witness the trial, crucifixion, entombment and resurrection of Christ. He is also an unwitting instrument in the Second Coming of the Messiah. The question is: In what form does the Messiah return? This book goes beyond Mel Gibson´s ´Passion´. It follows Christ into Hell and speculates on what happened to the Messiah in the three days before the Resurrection.

About the Author

John Rickard began writing at the age of 11. Schooling, and the need to contribute to the family coffers from the age of 14 in a variety of jobs, followed by six years service as a soldier, meant that he was 23 before he was able to take up writing full-time – as a journalist. He has written millions of words during his working life – but ‘The Golgotha Gate’ is first full-length work of fiction. He is now completing his second book, the first in a trilogy. ‘Whatever Became of Those Bennet Girls?’ is a light-hearted follow-up to Jane Austen’s ‘Pride and Prejudice.’