Time Mission: The Ninth Legion
By James Sladack
An encrypted SOS, carved on a boulder, alarms the Defense Department. The DNA, in a 2000-year- old tooth, identifies the mason as British SAS Captain King, who disappeared from Old Jerusalem, carrying the mystical Longinus Spear-tip which pierced Jesus’ side at the Crucifixion. Is it responsible for the time ripples threatening the 21st century?
Green Beret Robert Lake time-transports to 1st century England with an unconventional commando team. He discovers that demons are real and aligned with the Dark Lord Daniel. Lake organizes a fight-to-the-death campaign, against a cannibalistic, Druid army and the possessed Roman 9th Legion, both commanded by the demonic Daniel, carrying the Spear-tip in battle.
The novel explores several themes. May you kill enemy wounded? May orders be disobeyed? Are U.S. citizens bound by the Constitution before it was enacted? Do parallel realms exist? Is the universe a field of consciousness? What is span of control? What is real? The reader may ponder these ideas or just hang on tightly for a ripping adventure story.