I always knew that I wanted to walk the deserts and mountains of Israel before finishing the process on this first LION OF WAR book. Due to our miraculous Internet age and the availability of high quality research, it is entirely possible to write a historically knowledgeable and effective Bible-based story without having ever been there.

That said, as I suspected, I couldn't really feel it before now. It bled through my fingers onto the page as best it could, but it wasn't until I stood on Ma...