..".eating bees isn't a shortcut to finding honey." Life in the ancient world is rough. It was even rougher if you are a young, upstart rock & roll band on the streets of Rome. Rock & Roll Empire follows the rise and fall of Rome's greatest rock band. From their humble beginnings through their tour of the Empire (intentional or not), The Sons of Apollo find that fortune and fame doesn't come cheap. From the Circus Maximus to the sands of North Africa and everywhere else in between they meet up with rival acts, the Queen of Sheba, the great-grandson of Pontius Pilate, and other weirdos both good and evil. Learn how the Sphinx lost its nose, the real origin of spaghetti, and how music can transform people and change the world.

..".and if we go to war with a religious enemy, what better way to drive home the point that God is on our side." These are the cryptic words uttered by a man known only as The Engineer. A man who exhibits the traits of gravitational lensing, a man that floats on the edge of reality, a man who may or may not be a living black hole. Out in the wastelands of the Nevada desert two men meet for the first and last time. One man is hunting for the truth; the other is being hunted by it. Remote military bases, biblical imagery, X-Plane technology, ghosts in the desert, and lost silent films find their home in this tale of conspiracy and paranoia. Agent 47 is on the threshold of unraveling the greatest cover-up in aerospace history, one that has remained top secret for half a century. Will he find what he's looking for or will truth really be stranger than fiction? The desert holds many secrets and lurking in the skies above is the identity of a mysterious entity known only as The Fifth Pilot.