Title: The hand that drove the nails
First published: 1962
Description: While recovering from an injury sustained during World War I, a soldier stationed in the Middle East makes what could be the most startling archaeological discovery in centuries. But circumstances prevent him from exploring the discovery until one night in 1920 when he opens the box and finds inside: parchments, three nails and the bones of a man's right hand. 

Then the remarkable story of Scipio Martialis, a Roman soldier in the time of Christ, the man designated to nail Christ to the cross unfolds. 

THE HAND THAT DROVE THE NAILS grips the reader's imagination and sweeps him along on one man's powerful journey through the most crucial event in the history of the world. With powerful imagination, J. Fletcher Ray recreates the Jerusalem of the first century A.D. and tells how the birth, life and death of Christ impacted on ordinary people swept up in God's great plan for the salvation of the world. All those who were on Golgotha on that fateful Friday could not help but be affected by the death of Christ. And none more so than the man who drove the nails into His hands and feet.