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By Jacqueline Cutler
on April 27, 2014
Lou Romano, of Park Ridge, has written a heartfelt thriller about a complicated, abused man who happens to be a serial killer of pedophiles.
‘Intercession’
By Louis Romano
(Vecchia Publishing, 336 pp, $12.95)
It’s unusual to finish a book full of gruesome murders and feel deeply satisfied. It’s also unusual to read a book set in the neighborhood of your youth and know the streets, stores and churches, but realize you had no idea what was going on.
That’s not to suggest that Louis Romano is anything less than accurate; we moved in different worlds. Romano spins an excellent and disturbing story about pedophiles, concentrating on Roman Catholic priests.
A longtime Park Ridge resident, Romano sets much of the book around the Bronx of his childhood. His hero, John Deegan, attended parochial school and tried to do right by everyone.
“John Joseph Deegan was the second born of six children to Jack Joseph Deegan and Maureen Duffy. He was the shining apple of his parents’ eyes. In his mother’s heart, soul and mind, Johnny Boy was destined to be a priest from the day he was born. With John as a priest and by the grace of God, one of her daughters perhaps would join the convent, Maureen Deegan would have been happy to have closed her eyes and gone to heaven that very day. Her work on earth would have been complete as her children would work on saving souls and doing God’s work to alleviate the sins of the people.”
John was a perfect student and even the most severe of the nuns could not help but adore him. Though far smarter than his classmates, he was not obnoxious about his superior intellect and helped others. He was also very cute and quickly became a favorite of the parish priest.
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