Alexander's Lighthouse

By: Don Westenhaver

Narrated by: 5395 MEDIA LLC

It's 92 AD. The imperial city of Rome rules Western civilization. A young man named Marco from Corinth joins a small team of brilliant engineers to work on classified projects. Titus, the Roman Prefect of Egypt, knew Marco's father and he sponsors the young man, who then promptly falls in love with Titus' daughter, Paula.

Populated by native Egyptians, colonized by Greeks, settled by Jewish immigrants, and ruled by the Romans, the huge city of Alexandria is a cultural melting pot that frequently boils over. At least once a month, highly organized insurgents emerge to harass the Roman Army's occupational forces and then quickly disappears back into the alleys and apartments. Titus orders Marco's team to find a new weapon to help defeat the rebels. They create a shockingly powerful device, but before they can deliver it to Titus, the rebels obtain it and begin murdering the engineers to keep the device secret from the Romans.

A mysterious woman named Nebit, young, beautiful, and wealthy, befriends Marco, but as he tries to stay faithful to Paula, he also questions her true intentions because of her past history and her belief that she is the reincarnation of Egypt's last Pharaoh.

©2015 Don Westenhaver (P)2016 Ca Times Publishing

One of the best Historical Fiction novels I have e

This is one of the best Historical Fiction novels I have ever read. I have been with Robert E. Lee the night prior to Pickett's charge. I have endured the starvation and cold of the South Pole with Sir Ernest Shackleton, I have been with the Marines as they charged the beach on Iwo Jima, and yes I have been a member of the crew of Apollo 13.
Now I have experienced what it must have been like to live in the First Century AD and walk the streets of Alexandria Egypt when it was one of the most advanced cultural centers in the ancient world, READ or LISTEN to this book ( I did both)!
I am absolutely amazed at the amount of detail Mr. Westenhaver includes about the architecture, geography, military, and culture of one of the most advanced civilizations in human history. You will come away with a feeling that YOU were there.
Thank you Mr. Westenhaver for taking the years of research, it must have taken to bring this story to life.