Transgression: A Time-Travel Suspense Novel by R. S. Ingermanson

A physicist travels back in time to kill the apostle Paul.

Ari's cell phone buzzed while he was crossing King George Avenue. He pulled it out of his pocket as he reached the sidewalk. “Shalom, Ari speaking.”

“Shalom, Ari!” said Dov. “The ladies are waiting.”

“I’m just turning onto Ben Yehuda Street now,” Ari said. “Where are you?”

“Go toward the Hotel Kikar Tzion,” Dov said. “We’re in a little cafe out on the sidewalk. You can’t miss us.”

Ari snorted. “Which means I will, certainly. Remember the first time you told me we couldn’t miss?”

“And how could I forget, when you keep reminding me?” Dov asked. “Ah, the waiter is here already. Hurry, Ari.”

“Shalom.” Ari snapped his phone shut and jammed it into his pocket. It was half and hour after sundown. Shabbat was over, and the streets had magically filled with people— tourists, students, families, couples. The night air was cool, with just a hint of a breeze. A good night to be alive.

Execept that his meddling Imma had pestered Dov’s meddling Imma into setting him up with this blind-date foolishness. Ari sighed. Part of him felt offended by it all.

And part of him felt greatful. After all, you didn’t meet many women in the halls of a physics department, and Dov had assured him that both of the “ladies” he was meeting tonight were friendly and attractive. Ari only hoped he would make it through the evening without doing anything ridiculous. He hadn’t had much of a social life for years— not since his undergraduate days at Hebrew University.

It was his own fault, he knew. He feared too much that he would do something wrong, so he usually wound up doing nothing at all. A man almost thirty-two ought to have a wife, or at least a girlfriend. But how did you do that? What was the magic trick? His Imma said he was too passive, and she was probably right, and it made him furious, but what could he do? Was it his fault he got all the introversion genes?

Book title: Transgression: A Time-Travel Suspense Novel (City of God series, book 1)

Author: Randall S. Ingermanson

Author's web page: http://ingermanson.com/

Author’s faith: Vineyard church, Evangelical (?)

Genre: Suspense,

Subgenre: Science Fiction

Story Tags: time travel, Israel, Apostle Paul

Publication Date: 2001

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