Christ the Lord; Out of Egypt

This is the book Anne Rice was born to write - the story of Jesus, the boy who was born to be King of the Jews, the 'ultimate supernatural hero, the ultimate outsider, and the ultimate immortal'...The story opens in cosmopolitan Alexandria where the family has fled. But, when Herod dies, they take ship for Israel, a land under Roman occupation at a time of insurrection and confusion after the death of a tyrant king. The boy Jesus' awareness, of his extraordinary powers, and of the whispered mysteries surrounding his birth, is growing - as he comes face to face with the truth about his past, and the challenges of his future...