When asked about the nature of his books, Lloyd Douglas once replied: "If my novels are entertaining I am glad, but they are not written so much for the purpose of entertaining as for inspiration."

THE ROBE is a fine example of this. Here, we are given the story of the young Roman soldier, Marcellus, who was a witness to the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. The flowing narrative draws clear lines to contemporary examples of human crises, and our own measures of the "rightness" of our actions.

"Easily his most brilliant parable." (Saturday Review of Literature)