I, Judas: Taylor Caldwell; Jess Stern

Judas, the myth, history's arch betrayer who sold his Lord for thirty pieces of silver and who stands for all time as a figure to be rejected and reviled; Judas, the man, son of wealth and power, a young rebel, a disciple who fought to suppress the lusts of his flesh and hot-blooded pride to follow Jesus - and who became the victim of a monstrously diabolical lie when he committed the act that damned him in the eyes of the world; now the man - not the myth - comes alive in the most startling and spellbinding retelling of the greatest story ever told as if by Judas, the man who needed a leader who would restore freedom, a man he could gladly support. But the leader he found preached only peace. Judas believed that if openly challenged, Jesus would declare himself and be forced to accept the role of Messiah. When his hope was dashed, Judas allowed himself to be misled into the act that made his name a byword for treachery forever.