History Trilogy

By Gary J Byrnes

The creation of the Jesus myth in ancient Rome. The downfall of King Louis XVI in France. The horror of the Nazi concentration camp at Dachau. History is full of lessons for us. But can we ever learn? Three thrilling stories in one great value ebook that will make you reconsider history and your place in it.

It's said that history is written by the victors (of war). What if history was written by artists, lovers, heroes?

From Gary J Byrnes, the author of 9/11 TRILOGY and TO EAT THE WORLD.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Gary J Byrnes
• Release date: Oct 13, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301371846

Gary J Byrnes

When you buy any of Gary's books, he will fund a hemp plant through his planet-saving, hemp offset and sustainable living platform at Hempoffset.com. Read a thriller, be the thriller, save the world.LOCKDOWN DREAMS is flash fiction by GARY J BYRNES, writer of number one bestselling thriller 9/11 TRILOGY and Crime Writers’ Association Dagger-nominated PURE MAD. Gary works in aviation and space tech marketing and founded sustainability platform Hempoffset.com, crowdfunding a solution to the climate crisis with hemp. Lives in Dublin, Ireland, loves travelling in Europe and America. Ambition is to write The Great Novel of the 21st Century.Favourite writers include George Orwell, Yuval Harari, David Mitchell, Hunter S Thompson, Norman Mailer and Philip K Dick. When not at his laptop, Gary enjoys cooking, encountering great art, exploring cities and trying to make the world a better place, one story at a time.

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HISTORY TRILOGY

By Gary J Byrnes

Stories also appearing in THE WRITER AND OTHER STORIES.

Copyright 2013-15 © Gary J Byrnes.

The right of Gary J Byrnes to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright & Related Rights Act, Ireland, 2000. All rights reserved.

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In this work of fiction, the characters, places and events are either the product of the author's imagination or they are used entirely fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is coincidental.

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1. THE WRITER

2. THE KEY

3. GOLEM

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1. THE WRITER

Rome, The Empire - 40 CE

Rats feasted on a dead drunk, but out of sight. A heavy evening after the scorched afternoon; late summer, the month of the God Emperor Augustus. The air glowed, smoke from thousands of oil lamps and open fires catching the sun's fading power.

The writer's eyes burnt as he stood on the balcony of his family domus on the Palatine Hill, watched the murmuring city stretched out below. He acknowledged a peculiar beauty in the wide sweep of wretched humanity huddled together; slums and tenements hugging the banks of the Tiber, hill after hill to the glimpse of distant, burning sea.

Time passed. Abstract forms took shape. His heart leapt, giddy.

Later, a fat moon rose from behind the imposing home, cast its cold light over the dead day, the greatest city in history, the worried man. But the writer had a fire in his belly, a new idea burned, became alive. At last, his simmering anger had found a purpose, some kind of direction.

'Beautiful, isn't it?' said his mother, touching his elbow