We Three Thieves is a dark morality tale, one that re-envisions the coming of the Magi from the Gospel of Matthew—only its "wise men" make the journey not to simply adore the Christ-child and return home, but to enlist him to their own purposes. After all, if you knew the World Savior was being born somewhere before anyone else, would you put your life at risk to make such a journey, there and back again, and without any ulterior motivations of your own? Told as one of the Magi's confessions, We Three Thieves merges historical facts with lyrical imagery from the Bible and other sacred texts of the ancient Near East. In the process, the novel demonstrates how Christianity evolved not only out of a mingling of Judaism and Greek philosophical discourse—as commonly misrepresented in the West—but equally from ancient Persian (i.e. Iranian) and Babylonian (i.e. Iraqi) apocalyptic religions.