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.
About Author Louis Romano
Louis Romano (1950- ) is of Sicilian descent. He grew up in The Bronx, NY and attributes his books’ themes largely to that heritage and circumstance. His writing career began at age 60 with INTERCESSION, a bloody revenge thriller, which earned him the title of 2014 Foreword Review Top Finalist. 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. Romano has 17 published novels.