The Long Witness: The Diaries of Christopher James Draco

Born in the age of hunter-gatherers, Christopher James Draco should have vanished with the first campfires. Instead, he remains—unchanged by time, yet never safe from death.

Across floods and famines, empires and revolutions, plagues and world wars, Christopher loves, loses, and survives while humanity remakes itself around him. Told through his private diary, this deeply personal novel invites readers into the intimate thoughts of a man who has walked from prehistory to the modern age.

He is no hero of legend. He is a witness, a husband, a father, a fugitive, a laborer, and a mourner—a man who has come terrifyingly close to death more times than he can bear to count.

As memory blurs into myth and biblical echoes haunt the edges of real history, one question follows him through every century:

What does it cost to keep living when everyone else must let go?