Dark Passage

It began with a rain of frogs. . . . A strange phenomenon grips the world of todayand yesterday. A shepherd boy appears outside a scientific facility at Los Alamos, New Mexico, babbling in an ancient tongue. At the same time, two thousand years ago, mortal fear grips a queen whose murderous ambitions are boundless, as she entertains her subjects with screams of the dying men in an arena. In one moment, time is ripped apart . . . . Brutal jihad terrorists slip through the hole in time, on a mysterious and deadly quest to change the course of history. To stop them, three innocent people, two men and a woman, are sent back on the most exciting mission in historyto unravel a mystery and stop a killer. Back to a time when the people of Israel chaffed under the heel of Roman legions and a brutal queen used sex and murder in a scheme for empire. Set against the vivid and violent tapestry of modern and ancient Israel,Dark Passageis an unforgettable saga of war, murder, technology, and high adventure.

Junius Podrug is the author of Frost of Heaven and Presumed Guilty. He lives in Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

“Three unlikely heroes are forced to save the world from the most harrowing terrorist assault in Junius Podrug’s gripping thriller. Dark Passage is a hair-raising page-turner.”—W. E. B. Griffin

“Imaginative and spellbinding, Dark Passage is a ripping good read—with deep and unexpected undercurrents that pull the reader along to a haunting conclusion.”—Ralph Peters, New York Times bestselling author of Traitor and The Devil’s Garden