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War Of The Gods
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 23 2026
Pages: 490
Weight: 1.29
Height: 1.22 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
When Dr. Micah Reed steps into a classified experiment designed to observe the past, he expects data, not disaster. But when the machine overloads, Micah is hurled into the heart of ancient Egypt-alone, injured, and trapped in a world he has only studied from a distance.
As Pharaoh tightens his grip and the Hebrew slaves cry out beneath the lash, Micah finds himself caught between two civilizations on the edge of collision. In the royal court, he witnesses power, pride, and the crumbling certainty of Egypt's gods. Among the Hebrews, he encounters a suffering people whose hope refuses to die. And as the plagues begin to fall-blood, fire, darkness, and death-Micah must confront a truth far more terrifying than time travel:
He is not watching history.
He is standing inside the judgment of God.
As Egypt unravels and the path to freedom is carved through terror and miracle, Micah is forced to choose where he stands-not as a scientist, but as a man. Yet even if he survives the war between Pharaoh and the God of Israel, one question remains:
If he ever finds his way home... what kind of man will return?
War of the Gods is a sweeping biblical time-slip thriller about faith, pride, suffering, and the terrifying nearness of the divine.
Here's a slightly more cinematic version too, in case you want something with a stronger commercial feel:
Dr. Micah Reed believed history could be observed, measured, explained.
He was wrong.
When a catastrophic experiment hurls him out of his own time and into ancient Egypt, Micah awakens in a land of slavery, empire, and rising dread. As Pharaoh defies the demands of Moses, Micah is swept into the living nightmare of the Exodus-where rivers turn to blood, fire falls from heaven, darkness swallows the land, and death waits at midnight.
Caught between the splendor of Egypt and the suffering of the Hebrews, Micah must navigate suspicion, betrayal, and a truth his skeptical mind cannot contain: the plagues are not disasters.
They are war.
And the gods of Egypt are losing.
But when Micah's shattered device begins to awaken, he faces an impossible choice between the world he came from and the people he has come to love. Because surviving the past may cost him far more than his life-it may cost him his heart.
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