Ralph Ellis asserts that this is the book that the Catholic Church has been dreading for the last 1,700 years. His research reveals who Jesus was, where he lived and who his family were. Visit his city, see the ruins of his citadel, gaze upon his statue, handle his coins. Jesus was a son of King Abgarus of Edessa, a princeling with a small realm, a large treasury and even bigger ambitions. The true history of this region undermines much of the biblical fairy-story - Christianity may never be the same.