Jack O’Brien
Stories of buried history, hidden lives, and dangerous discoveries.
For two thousand years, history got it wrong.
Rome knew him as Caesarion, son of Cleopatra and Julius Caesar—the last true heir to the thrones of the greatest civilizations of the ancient world—said to have been murdered in his eighteenth year.
But when archaeologists Fia Quinn and Carlo DeLuca uncover a cache of carbonized scrolls in the ashes of Vesuvius, they realize they may have found something unfathomable—proof that Caesarion survived into old age, written in his own hand.
As Carlo decodes the ancient texts, the words of her son, the surviving eyewitness to Cleopatra’s murder, forever alter what the world once thought to be true.
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Jack O’Brien
Jack is a retired ad agency executive. In his role as Creative Director, he took his company from an office in the pantry of his kitchen in Erie, PA, to center-city Pittsburgh and the Jing ‘An district of Shanghai. In addition to building the agency, he also created an online post-graduate school that provides continuing education credits to architects. In 2016 he led the school in pursuit of national accreditation, and achieved that goal after an eighteen-month effort. Today, under new ownership, it remains the only institutionally accredited continuing ed architectural school in the US.
O’Brien lives in The Villages, Florida with his wife Pam, a published poet. You can see her work here. They have three children and three grandchildren. Jack is a former radio announcer (SAG/AFTRA) and enjoys speaking with social clubs and writing groups. You can get more information about Jack’s availability here.
Despite no formal training, he was juried into membership in the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh (member, 2010-2022), the oldest continually exhibiting arts organization in the country, founded in 1910 by Andrew Carnegie. His 3D work includes stone sculpture and clay, as well as 2D, oil and acrylic. Click here to view some of his work.
His previous books are The Roundabout Way and The Last U-Boat. All are available on Amazon and through bookstores everywhere.
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