Pilate: A Brutal Bible Tale by Steven Rage
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- Pub. Date: December 2007
- 284pp
- Sales Rank: 754,888
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- Pub. Date: December 2007
- Publisher: Outskirts Press, Inc.
- Format: Paperback, 284pp
- Sales Rank: 754,888
- ISBN-13: 9781432717971
- ISBN: 1432717979
Synopsis
Pontius Pilate is cursed to be a vampire. Life after life after life.
Author Steven Rage creates a vivid and starkly horrifying world of vengeance and redemption played out on the hellish, drug-infected wasteland of The Harbor. These vampire, demon and monster filled re-tellings of familiar bible stories starts with a slug to the gut in PILATE: A Brutal Bible Tale, the first installment in Steven Rage's groundbreaking "Harborside" series.
In PILATE: A Brutal Bible Tale, Pontius Pilate is the reincarnated drug lord vampire that rules the Plata drug trade with an iron fist. When The Harbor's underboss, King Herod, steals Pilate's business and executes his friends, Pilate has no choice but to seek the help of Immanuel Christ. Herod and his bosses, the Pharisees, have different plans. Lucifer has his own script to follow and the body count stacks up quickly. Immanuel is their trump card and Pilate is given an offer hard to refuse: deliver, via Judas, the Christ into Herod's tortuous hands and retrieve his drug dealing business. Or, he could protect the Christ and die forgiven. Will Pontius Pilate wash his hands once again?
PILATE: A Brutal Bible Tale is a no holds barred, relentless thrill ride through the wicked urban streets of The Harbor and is not for the faint of heart. Be warned: this one of a kind reading experience will shock and challenge you. PILATE will grab you by the throat from the first page and not let go until even after the book is inhaled.
You will never look at the Holy Bible in quite the same way again.
PILATE: A Brutal Bible Tale. This not your parents bible story....
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Worth getting your hands dirty!by JAGuilera
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January 19, 2009:
Steven Rage?s ?Pilate: A Brutal Bible Tale? explores the depths of sin, the way it stains our lives, and graphically illustrates the things we fear most. He forces us to look at true sin, true villainy, and truly offensive images of alternative realities. Sometimes it takes a shock to wake up!
Rage creates a dismal post-industrial future, a look at man defiled and in decline. Evil has arrived and this is NOT our Father?s World! Dominion has been taken by those who walk as the damned, demons, Halflings, products of debauched rampages and sins against nature, and then, of course, the vampires. Sex, drugs, and broken souls are the only things of value. Life is more like a disease, and the only salvation is the right amount of Plata to numb the conscience and, if one is lucky, to bring on a cleverly disguised demise.
Introduce into this world a savior, a light for a dark world. Rejected in one life as a man, rejected in another as spiritual being, now returning in the form of woman, Immanuel returns to give God?s creation another chance. Following religious folklore, parables, and beliefs, Rage presents the readers with a God who truly is the Shepherd that leaves no sheep behind. While this tale is deeply woven with the intricacies of a dark, drug-infested world ruled by evil forces, this is the story of a lost sheep. All are God?s children, even the most foul creatures who by their own will have become so through their spiritual and physical copulation with the Devil, and as such, in God?s mercy, still are given a chance to be saved.
All members of the passion play are present, but it is the one lost sheep that is the center of this tale. The one who by his denial of Christ, his rejected opportunity to do the honorable thing, is cursed to live as a vampire that walks century after century making the same mistakes. But is his curse to be a vampire or repetition?
Hell has dominion over the earth, but will evil, and all those who since the birth of Christ committed sins against the innocent by turning their backs and betraying the Lamb, continue to play the same roles? Is this some predestined condition, roles for the damned that have no place for an alternate ending? What has become of free will? And if we exercise free will, does that guarantee a different ending?
Through the sheer shock of his presentation, Rage forces his readers to consider the alternatives, to look at the garbage in the streets, to see what is swept into the gutters at night right before all decent people awake to see another cleaned up version of the day. He uses tradition to break tradition, to push our imagination in ways that are uncomfortable at the least and border on the offensive at worst. Yet, in doing so, he illustrates what real love is. He gives to us a God that truly goes to the extreme, any extreme, to give the prodigal son a chance to come home.
While this not a Christian book by definition, it is a religious and philosophical tale cleverly woven in a tapestry of darkness. Horror by definition and presentation. Depths reminiscent of Dante?s Inferno. Do you dare enter this world? Bravery has its rewards, and Steven Rage?s ?Pilate: A Brutal Bible Tale? is worth getting your hands dirty for!
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July 07, 2008: Pilate is an alternatingly terrifying and beautiful piece of fiction. Steve Nelson is a talent not to be missed. Buy this book, read it, and you will totally entranced.
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