THE WANDERING JEW

AN IMMORTAL'S JOURNEY THROUGH THE RUINS OF TIME

BEST SELLING AUTHOR
Billy McCue

Cursed. Immortal. Witness.

For a single act of cruelty on the road to Golgotha, the Roman-era merchant Cartaphilus is condemned to walk the earth until the Second Coming. This is not a blessing, but a sentence of endless life. He cannot age. He cannot die. He is forced to be the perpetual bystander, a ghost moving through the heart of history’s greatest and most terrible moments.

THE WANDERING JEW: An Immortal’s Journey Through the Ruins of Time is the breathtaking saga of his eternal odyssey. From the dusty streets of Jerusalem, he will travel the Silk Road as a phantom savior, fight in the shieldwall of the last Roman legion in Britannia, and race to save a single scroll from the burning Library of Alexandria. He will sail with Viking raiders to Lindisfarne, seek a false Fountain of Youth for a Caliph in Baghdad, and walk the bloody trenches of Verdun as a soldier who cannot be killed.

His journey is an intimate tapestry of human history. He will be a confidant to Leonardo da Vinci, a guardian of Gutenberg’s press, a whispered inspiration for Shakespeare’s Hamlet, and a conductor on the Underground Railroad. He will stand in the atomic shadow of Hiroshima and become a digital ghost hunted by a modern AI. Through it all, he seeks not glory, but purpose, and a final release from his divine punishment.

But when an ancient, gathering despair—born from the collective sorrow he has witnessed—threatens to unravel the world itself, his role shifts from passive observer to active guardian. Alongside other mythical immortals, he must gather fragments of hope from his own long journey: a sliver of a holy text, a genius’s sketch, soil from a scorched earth. These are the anchors that must hold against the coming storm.

This is more than a historical fantasy; it is a profound exploration of memory, guilt, and redemption. It asks what it means to be human when one is denied a human end, and what we owe to the story of our world.

Perfect for fans of the sweeping historical journeys in Ken Follett’s The Pillars of the Earth, the lyrical immortality of V.E. Schwab’s The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, and the epic, interconnected narratives of David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas.

Praise for the concept:
“A monumental, haunting, and ultimately hopeful adventure that reframes a ancient legend into a thrilling quest for meaning across the entirety of human civilization.”