A novel introducing Vic Gonnella
"Not for the faint-hearted."- Daniel Kenyon, author of The Savage Heart of Palermo.
Bludgeoning him to death, a man who was abused by his priest returns and then sets out on a rampage with sharpened crucifixes, righting the wrongs on behalf of other child victims who were sexually assaulted by their coach, Boy Scout leader, or other religious figures. A race through the streets of The Bronx, a swoop through the Magdalene Laundries in Ireland, into the Hasidic Jewish community, that then leads to the doorstep of the Vatican has a team of police, one with his own distressing past, secretly rooting for the killer, yet trying to do the job they've been hired to do.
Louis Romano (1950- ) is of Sicilian descent. He grew up in The Bronx, NY, and largely attributed his books' themes to that heritage and circumstance. His writing career began at age 60 with INTERCESSION, a bloody revenge thriller that earned him the 2014 Foreword Review Top Finalist title. BESA, winning six international film awards for its screenplay (2012 Winner: NYLA Int. Film Festival; 2012 Winner: California Film Awards; Winner: Bloody Hero Int. Film Festival; 2013 Winner: Paradigm Script Pipeline; 2013 Winner: Best Script Honolulu Film Awards) has been translated into Albanian from which the word BESA is derived. It means the 'promise' or 'code'... an organized crime novel.