Richard Thomas France was a New Testament scholar and Anglican cleric, and Research Fellow in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Wales, Bangor.
If you have read the Bible extensively you will probably not find a lot new here. France does give us a new way to look at a particular passage here and there but it all depends on how much you know about Jesus and the Gospels. It never hurts to read a book on Jesus that is well written, and this one is indeed well written