My name is Doctor Julius Goldman.
For some years now I have been involved with the fate of a man known only to a few and believed by the majority of those to be no more than a myth from the distant past. Yes! a myth… like the hero of the Epics of Gilgamesh or the Kulkulkan of the Mayan legends, and even the story of the wandering Jew. The man I know came to me with a wound that should have been fatal, but he did not die. From that first meeting our lives have been intertwined.
For some reason, he has a compulsion to finish the story of his life. A story that for me began in the hospital at Nha Trang, in South Vietnam, over ten years ago. From time to time we have met, and each time a force comes over me, as it did in that hospital. I am drawn again into the past of the man I first knew as Sergeant Casey Remain-a man who the rest of the world only knows dimly… as the man who killed Jesus on Golgatha.
He is the Roman legionnaire, Casca Rufio Longinus.
And, as Casca has his compulsion to finish what he began with me, I have the same drive to put down his story. I know most won't believe me, but then, that doesn't really matter; I know it's real, and even today…
Casca lives to walk the earth until the Second Coming… Casca Lives!