Markus Pontius Pilate was born in Samnium in central southern Italy, in the reign of Caesar Augustus to a wealthy family.As a son of a military officer known to the Emperor, Markus is given the finest tutors and at 18, was entered into the Registries as a practitioner of Roman law.Come with Markus as he trains with the world's elite, fights his way through the Barbarians in Spain with his father and is asked by the Emperor himself to become Prefect of the troublesome colony...

An Appointment with the Future:Seconds before his assassination, Abraham Lincoln was snatched from his box at Ford's Theatre in Washington, DC for an appointment with the future.The year was 1865 as the nation struggles to recover from internal division and the disaster of civil war. Through an accidental breakthrough by two tinkerers, he emerges in the year 2029, when American again stands at the precipice of international conflict and dangerous internal struggles. Who bro...

What if one of the Bible's briefest miracles hid a story as profound as life itself?Everyone remembers the line: "Peter raised Tabitha from the dead."But who was she before that moment? And what happened after?In Call Me Tabatha, acclaimed storyteller David R. Pickett breathes new life into the woman known as Dorcas, Gazelle, Tabitha… a name whispered across centuries yet rarely understood. Through meticulous historical research and imaginative reconstruction, Picke...

Take an insider's seat and witness THE REAL TEXAS at the ending of the cowboy era; cars, phones and electricity are new; in real life there are no dime-novel heroes; the enemy comes raiding, the reluctant Marshal; what did he really do? Is this real-life scoundrel, my Grandfather Ross, really the hero of the old west? Were such men behind the curtain of the unexplainable rise of the old West to modern Texas in a decade? And what did one woman do that unknowingly changes history? Based on a...

Ishmael was born east of the Garden of Eden, in the reign of Caesar Augustus to a noble family of caravan traders ruled by the Candaces, warrior queens who were the daughters of Solomon, and daughters of Adam and Eve's son Seth and the daughters of Ham, the son of Noah.As a young math prodigy, Ishmael is given the finest tutors from ancient India, the birthplace of math.His disinterest in the arts of war finally frustrates Ishmael, so his father has him tutored by the legen...

What if the greatest victories of World War II were shaped not only on the battlefield… but behind closed doors, in whispered meetings, in risks no history book ever recorded?In Ike and Charlie: What You Don't Know About Ike and WWII, acclaimed storyteller David R. Pickett takes readers into the rooms where decisions were made, where strategy was neither clean nor ceremonial, and where desperation forced men of conscience into impossible choices.The novel grows out of a dee...

What would 1808 President Thomas Jefferson do (really do) if he were here now, was up to date on current events; and was then revealed to the public.Jefferson's Encore is true physics, science plausible and not just fiction.Folding space with NASA's Alcubierre drive, the Portal slips into 1804 in an attempt to make scholarly observation of the Lewis and Clark Discovery Expedition and they get more than they bargained for. Their crossing of the 1804 virgin West is tumultuous...

A sweeping saga of adventure, danger, and destiny in the Arabian world of 2026 BC.Ten year old Keturah lives for adventure - racing donkeys through the oasis, mastering bow and her Arabian, and repelling an army of caravan-raiding Shasu desert people, with Mirra, her fearless constant companion, assigned to her at birth - handmaid, sister, guardian, and warrior.But her world is no ordinary childhood. She is the daughter of a powerful tribal chieftain, trained by a Sumerian ...

Being relentlessly hunted through the residential streets of DC by AI drones, Charlie Robertson runs for his life, playing hide and seek with death from above after he escapes from the lab where he and his team have discovered a deep cover-up that has eluded the entire government from Senate committees to the Security Council; even high level security at ultra-secret Broome Lake.Charlie and his team of special ops mercenaries boldly go right to the secret base to try to expose that...

In the vastness of the cosmos, where countless stars and planets drift unnoticed, one Traveler stirs from eons of indifference. He is no adventurer, no scientist, merely a curious being compelled by an inexplicable urge to investigate a faint signal from a distant, unremarkable star—our Sun.In his sixth book, acclaimed author David Pickett utilizes the same wisdom and experiences evident in his 16 cutting-edge US patents to create this penetrating exploration of curiosity, AI, and ...

After years of effort, Carl Raines finally dials in the physics that opens a small Portal into the next day by folding space using the legendary enigmatic Alcubierre Drive.Will Burleson expands it by playing tomorrow's stock market and after two years they manage to open a Portal anywhere in the universe at any time.Acting on Carl's lifelong fascination with President Lincoln, the Portal Team grabs and brings Lincoln to 2035 where he sets off political turmoil and the near n...

"…am I committing suicide or being reborn?" Charlie Robertson makes a bold decision in a one in a million survival chance to change global history that results in a fight to free North Korea and remove its nuclear threat while fleeing from high level and international threats to him and his family. Try to keep up with Charlie and his 'Uncle' Ike - President Dwight Eisenhower - as they plunge into unimaginable futures…Acclaimed author David Pickett reaches into the unknown, stretchi...