The Pilgrim - Part I: Immortality Wars (Book IV of the Immortality Wars)

The Immortality Wars series continues with the first book of the second trilogy...
 
After thinking he dies in combat, a young warrior learns he was in a world created as a human experiment by a ruthless society over 500 years in the future. He must draw upon his combat skills and spiritual power to fight amidst a galactic war whose twelve bases are in a deadly quest for immortality.
 
It is 2562 Old Earth Time. One reality, created by scientists, technicians, and a corrupt ruling council on a distant exoplanet seeking immortality, erupts into their own. He brings with him all the mortal capacity, knowledge, and prowess in combat he has gained through their experimentation on him.
 
A sergeant in an elite company of warriors, Pall Warren brings these acquired powers of a medieval time to this realm of sophistication. He also brings with him a rare spiritual ability not seen in 540 years.
 
Pall is sought by human greed, the morbid manipulation of scientific curiosity, the hunger for religious truth, and the might of cyborg masters. He must fight his way through a theater of war far beyond anything he has ever before witnessed or imagined.
 
Yet through his perilous journey in two dominions, he is sustained by the love and prayer of a mysterious and beautiful woman from his former life.

A. Keith Carreiro is a multi-award-winning author who lives in southeastern Massachusetts. He has an abiding love and passion for the visual, literary, and performing arts. At an early age, he started playing the classical guitar and toured professionally as a solo concert classical guitarist in the 70s throughout North and South America.
 
He is the author of the epic speculative saga The Immortality Wars, a sweeping faith-based, science-fiction, fantasy series that explores one of the most profound questions facing humanity: What happens when mankind attempts to conquer death itself?
 
Blending philosophy, theology, futurism, and epic storytelling, Carreiro's work examines the moral and spiritual consequences of artificial immortality in a future where humanity seeks to rival the forgotten gods of Old Earth. His stories combine high-concept science fiction with deep reflections on faith, creativity, and the destiny of the human soul.
 
He has written a nonfiction essay in Stephen King's Hearts in Suspension (2016) as well as published a number of respected scholarly essays in peer-reviewed educational journals and texts, such as the Journal of Philosophy and History of Education and The Future of Educational Studies. Send Down the Master in Person: Reflections on Adolf Eichmann (2022) is a long narrative and annotated poem about the Holocaust written in honor of his parents and their generation who fought in World War Two.
 
Carreiro also holds advanced degrees in education from Harvard and has long explored the intersection of creativity, imagination, and human development, themes that strongly inform his fiction and public conversations.
 
Due to his love of family, he has seen his fervor for history, as well as his passion for wondering about the future, deepen dramatically.  He belongs to an impish, yet shy, Calico cat, named Tik-Tak. He also has a golden retriever named Blaise, in honor of Merlin's teacher, as well as Blaise Pascal.