THE GOSPEL OF DYSMAS: The Thief Who Was First Through the Gate

Six times the Kingdom of God came close enough to touch. Six times he turned away. History remembers him only as the thief who hung beside Christ — the one who asked, at the last, to be remembered. This is the story Scripture left in silence: who he was, what he had done, and what broke open in him in the final hour of his life. A work of biblical fiction drawn from the persons and events recorded in the Gospels, The Gospel of Dysmas follows the man tradition calls the penitent thief — through the choices that made him, the crimes that condemned him, and the crucifixion that placed him beside the one door he could no longer refuse. The door he found is still open.