The Redemption of Pontius Pilate

Lucius Pontius Pilate was a Roman on the rise - a ruthless confidential agent of the reclusive Emperor Tiberius Caesar. He had a cruel streak that Tiberius used to strike fear into the hearts of Rome's enemies, but after a disastrous encounter with Tiberius' young heir, Gaius Caligula, Pilate found himself dismissed from the Emperor's court and sent to political exile in the Empire's least desirable province - the desert wasteland of Judea.

In this dry country, where political rebellion and religious fanaticism blossomed like flowers after a desert rain, Pilate's life became entwined with that of a mysterious holy man, the itinerant preacher known as Jesus of Nazareth. But Jesus has powerful enemies in the local establishment . . . and they want Pilate to rid them of their problem.