The Calvary Incident

About the Book

Admiral Atkins leads the Athena I project, developing the world’s greatest supercomputer. Its artificial intelligence discovers how to travel through time. Religiously fanatical, Admiral Atkins turns rogue. He leads six Navy SEALs to ancient Jerusalem to rescue Jesus from the Cross. If the SEALs succeed, the unintended consequence is an unrecognizable twenty-first century with continents covered by thick sheets of ice and missing seven billion people. Green Beret Colonel Robert Lake leads a small hunter-killer team of special operations troops drawn from all branches of the US military and the British SAS to intercept the SEALs. Two civilian experts—a brilliant but eccentric professor and a beautiful master linguist—complete the team. A ruthless CIA zealot, sympathetic to the SEALs, penetrates the hunter-killer team, bent on destroying them from within. How will the Green Berets and marines match up against the deadly SEALs? How are modern weapons neutralized in close combat by Roman edged weapons? Will the temptations of the flesh in ancient Jerusalem corrupt the hot-blooded marines? What will happen when the SEALs form a relationship with Judas? Who could be opposed to saving Jesus? Will the hunter-killer team turn on Colonel Lake to aid the SEALs in their holy mission? Is the past immutable or merely fluid consciousness open to alternate histories?

About the Author

James Sladack is a retired US Army lieutenant colonel with thirty-eight years of active and reserve service, including active duty as a paratrooper and a Special Forces officer with the Fifth SFGA (ABN) and as an USAR S3-operation officer. He served seven years as adjunct faculty at the US Army Command and General Staff College and is a graduate of the National Defense University Security Manager Course. He has decades of training with various martial arts, edged weapons, sticks, staff, and cane. For years, he volunteered as a part-time EMT on the second busiest ambulance squad in New Jersey. He was a real-estate manager at the corporate headquarters of CCC, ITT, GE, and director—global real estate for AlliedSignal/Honeywell. He was the director of the strategic consulting group for Newmark Knight Frank in NYC. He lives with his wife of thirty years, Nancy, in Southern California.