Dr. Henry Walton Jones is a brilliant young medievalist, devoted Christian, and reluctant adventurer in 1897 Oxford. Long before he becomes the father of Indiana Jones, Henry is already carving out a heroic legacy of his own—deciphering ancient manuscripts, exposing dangerous frauds, protecting sacred history, and standing against those who would twist knowledge for greed or power.

Formal, stubborn, deeply principled, and armed with a dry wit sharp enough to qualify as a weapon, Henry would much rather solve a mystery in a library than in a collapsing ruin. Unfortunately, history seldom gives him the choice.

As one of the Guardians of Tomorrow, Dr. Henry Jones proves that courage does not always carry a sword. Sometimes it carries a notebook, a Bible, and several very strong opinions about medieval Latin.