George Charles Werbacher

Born in Perth Amboy, New Jersey in 1968, Werbacher is a Senior Engineer with the Department of Defense and an artist who teaches the techniques of the Old Masters. Two disciplines. One obsession: the details others overlook.

That obsession drives his fiction.

Guardians of the Spear grew from a lifelong hunger to understand not just what happened in history, but how people actually lived it: the weight of a Roman soldier's armor, the politics of a Jerusalem marketplace, the fear of a servant who witnessed the impossible. He digs into the historical record, then asks the question no record can answer: what if?

Beneath every choice he makes as a writer runs a single current: free will. How do the people we meet, the places we inhabit, and the moments we cannot escape reshape the paths we thought were our own? In first-century Jerusalem, that question cuts to the bone.

Guardians of the Spear is his debut novel.