The Jar From Nineveh

By Peter Okafor

During the Iraq War, Sergeant Daniel Mercer helps extract a sealed clay jar from a hidden chamber near Mosul. The military calls it an artifact. Intelligence calls it a containment risk. Daniel calls it one more nightmare to bury.

Then he comes home. His wife Mara is told he has PTSD. But trauma does not make a man speak dead Akkadian in his sleep. It does not make dogs cower, children draw ancient symbols, or a husband's smile arrive half a second too late. As military records vanish and old witnesses die,
Mara discovers the truth: the jar was not the prison. Daniel was. Inside him, an ancient despotic intelligence is awake, watching, learning, and using his body while Daniel screams helplessly behind his own eyes.

And the thing that borrowed him has begun to build a kingdom."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HDHYPK4N
• ISBN13: 9798191340104
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"