The Baptist's Head

The Baptist’s Head interweaves the dramatic events of Israel at the time of Jesus Christ with a World War II conspiracy thriller.     

The skills of a Magician, Simon Magus, win him the favour of the wife of Herod Antipas.  The magician initiates a conspiracy so intricate and so far-seeing that it will only reach its climax in our time. 

Matthias von Ingolstadt leaves the horror of the trenches behind at the close of the World War I and returns to a Germany humiliated by the events that have left the country bankrupt and vulnerable. He meets and falls in love with Anna Lejkin, a Jew.  What follows appears to solve their racial differences but ultimately leads to discovery, manipulation and disaster. 

A Jew in Frankfurt, Germany, Michael Segal is caught up in the events preceding the war.  His friendship with Gabriele have far-reaching consequences for them both. 

Heinrich Himmler, the future SS leader of the Third Reich, forms a relationship with Ernst Röhm a battle-hardened veteran of WWI who has a penchant for young men. He promises Himmler the one thing he most desires – power. 

 The Baptist’s Head is an intricate story of love, romance, witch-craft, power and intrigue.  Lyn J Pickering employs history’s trail of circumstantial evidence to combine both Christian conspiracy and historical fiction in one bizarre and riveting package.