The Escape

On Easter Sunday 2016, the world is shocked to see a TV rebroadcast of a cataclysmic event that had just occurred in a huge glass topped church in the mountains of North Carolina. A man who looked exactly like Jesus appeared and seemed to calm an incredibly violent storm and is proclaimed a returned Jesus. An apparent miracle? Jesus had returned as a man. The Christian world is in total shock and joy. Five months earlier the man, formerly Peter Blake a famous young architect, was falsely accused of the murder of two employees of the Hugo Company, the contractor building a huge museum that he had designed. In order to prove his innocence, he escapes to his secret camp in North Carolina with the help of his attractive young attorney, Sofie Sonenberg, but is pursued by the sinister Boris Karpinski from the Hugo Company in his helicopter. This starts a dramatic chain of events leading up to the miracle on Easter Sunday 2016. The second book of the trilogy, 40 Days, describes what he might do when he was here. Mind you, this is not a prediction, it's a story, a novel, intended to let you think about how one of the world's greatest religious teachers and thinkers might appear to return to earth and what he would do and say if he were here. The Reluctant Miracle trilogy is not about religion or Christian beliefs in the normal sense. If Jesus did return, rather than quoting from the Bible, he probably would be telling us new parables related to the problems of modern society with its atomic bomb wars, overpopulation and potentially end of life on earth sustainability issues. In the second part of the trilogy during the 40 days The Man They Call Jesus says that he will be here, he is still being chased by police, paparazzi, Boris Karpinski and, of course, millions of devout Christians including a sinister secret society called the Sola Scriptura Society. The third book of the trilogy, The Holy Child, is principally about the heroine, Sofie Sonenberg.