The Verres Letter

I am by nature a thief... I steal to order. I amassed wealth beyond dreams of avarice. And then Felix the god of luck and cunning, the god of thieves deserted me. I made a terrible mistake and my dearest friends were slaughtered like stunned bulls, sacrifice to Mithras: Nor did the consequence of my mistake end with their deaths. My life and the life of all those I held dear fell down in ruin. Death snapped at my heels. I fled to Egypt and from there set out for Kathmandu which was about as far from Rome as I could at that time envisage. Along the dusty road I mourned my friends, the fate of my loved ones: Consequence, I realised too late is a harsh, unforgiving mistress. In Kathmandu I met Jeshua, a gifted healer, a scholar and a wise man. Three years later Jeshua gave me a sealed, cedar wood cylinder. He said it contained his testament. He asked me to carry it to the very edge of Empire. To Britain, a cool, green isle of drifting rain, of changing skies and soft, mellow sunlight. I never left the isle. As for Jeshua's testament? Jeshua, the one the Good Abbot calls Jesus.

• • Author: Roy E Edwards|J. A. Edwards, J A Edwards
• • Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• • Publication Date: Mar 02, 2017
• • Number of Pages: 166 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1543110665
• • ISBN-13: 9781543110661