Killing Jesus: The Unknown Conspiracy Behind the World’s Most Famouse Execution (Worthy Publishing) by Stephen Mansfield reads as a novel, as the author explores the conspiracy to kill Jesus. He says, “We have not been given a ghostly myth that hovers among the clouds. We have been given the crass story of a political murder in a violent age, a murder committed after the guardians of virtue decided to kill a man because he was too much competition.” Mansfield is a popular writer who captures the context of Jesus’ arrest and paints the reality of the crucifixion in brutal detail.