Everyone knows the punishment.

Almost no one knows the man.

Before the hill, before the stone, Sisyphus is a king, a husband, a father, and a man who has spent his life finding solutions other people cannot see.

When his city needs water, he finds it. When a god hides something that another father desperately wants to know, Sisyphus discovers how to turn the truth into a bargain.

Then Zeus sends Death for him.

Sisyphus has never been good at accepting an answer simply because everyone else considers it final.

So he finds a way around death too.

But some problems change when they are solved. The people around him must live with the consequences of every extra day he takes for himself, and the family he is trying to remain beside begins to understand that his greatest strength may also be the thing that costs them most.

His wife, Merope, knows the difference between loving a man and agreeing with him. His son, Glaucus, must learn how to become his own man beneath a father who is always certain there is one more thing to fix.

And Sisyphus must eventually confront the one problem that cleverness, persistence and love may not be enough to overcome.

I WAS SISYPHUS is a mythological novel about mortality, family, ambition and the dangerous conviction that every boundary must yield if a man is clever enough to find the way through.