Thank you for your review of Antioch. BTW- Tony is the author of The Obelisk and the Cross a book you'll hear about from me shortly: http://www.vividpublishing.com.au/the...

Gregory Ness in his book Antioch (The Sword of Agrippa Book 1) takes the reader an existential adventure that spans over 2000 years of real history and into an imagined future. His impressive ability to recreate the tumultuous period of Western civilisation that gave us Julius Creaser, Cleopatra and Augustus is juxtaposed against a bleak dystopian future ruled by an elite and ruthless Technocracy. However, beneath the historical story and the imagined future Mr Ness describes a deeper quest for spiritual illumination that binds the past and present together in a temporal journey of self discovery.
Antioch is a deep and layered text. It includes researched historical events with plausible explanations on the motivations behind them. Gregory Ness puts into play an entertaining narrative that transports the reader across time and culture while maintaining a relentless theme regarding the universal search for meaning.
I can absolutely recommend this book to anyone who is interested in the deeper aspects of human interaction and how events in life occur within a temporal rift of interconnection.