The Calvary Incident
By James Sladack
Admiral Atkins develops the world’s greatest supercomputer, Athena I. Its artificial intelligence discovers time travel. Religiously fanatical, Admiral Atkins turns rogue. He leads six Navy SEALs to Ancient Jerusalem to rescue Jesus from the Cross. If the SEALs succeed, the unintended consequence is an unrecognizable 21st century with continents covered by thick sheets of ice and missing 7 billion people.
Green Beret Colonel Robert Lake leads a small Hunter-Killer Team of special operations troops drawn from all branches of the US military and the British SAS to intercept the SEALs. Two civilian experts—a brilliant but eccentric professor and a beautiful master linguist—complete the team. A ruthless CIA zealot, sympathetic to the SEALs, penetrates the Hunter-Killer team bent on destroying them from within.
How will the Green Berets and Marines match-up against the deadly SEALs? How are modern weapons neutralized in close combat by Roman swords? Will the temptations of the flesh in Ancient Jerusalem corrupt the hot-blooded Marines? What happens when the SEALs form a relationship with Judas? Who could be opposed to saving Jesus? Will the Hunter-Killer Team turn on Colonel Lake to aid the SEALs in their holy mission? Is the Past immutable or merely fluid consciousness open to alternate histories?