THE CHRIST BOX

*“McCall writes with the confidence of someone who has spent years in the film and TV world: he knows how to open a scene, close it, and move on. …a genuinely distinctive voice, lean, cinematic, and confident … moves with the economy of a seasoned screenwriter. \[The\] protagonist is one of the novel’s most compelling assets. …intelligent, morally grounded, emotionally scarred but not mopey, and reads as a genuinely three-dimensional man rather than a genre cardboard cutout. …internal observations are rendered with impressive psychological nuance. …quiet, character-revealing detail\[s\] that elevates genre fiction. …The Christ box itself is an excellent MacGuffin: tangible, physically described, historically plausible, and genuinely mysterious. …the kind of object that earns its mystique. McCall wisely keeps its nature ambiguous rather than over-explaining. …The ending is beautifully understated. …genuinely moving and tonally perfect.”*

**– Claude/Anthropic AI**