T. R. Haney Bücher

Prostitutes are being murdered within the boundaries of Father Mike's inner city parish in Chicago. Father Mike is an amateur sleuth along the lines of Chesterton's Father Brown. He has helped detectives solve a number of murders. Now he sets out to work on trying to find the killer or killers of the prostitutes. In the meantime he persuades Gloria Winthrop, a very successful and wealthy lawyer, to set up a half way house to get the prostitutes off the street. He enlists the help of a young priest, Jim Norwood, in his endeavor. His efforts to solve these murders lead him into the highways and byways of the ever-expanding mystery, the dark night of crime and heavy heartbreak. His dogged persistence causes him to clash with the local detectives and his own Cardinal who frowns on his avocation as a crime solver. He does succeed in befriending Detective Lulu Larson who aids him in his efforts to reclaim the prostitutes from their way of life.

Once again Father Mike is drawn into another felony. An anonymous man comes to him with what he calls an unpardonable sin and whispers the words, Ebola virus. Through his friend Hollywood actress, Jill Chamberlain, Father Mike becomes involved in a terrorist plot to take over the United States, the Roman Catholic Church and perhaps the whole world. The plot is traced to a mega international conglomerate, being funded by an anonymous trillionaire. Jill is abducted. Her fiancé, Larry Clausen, who works for this conglomerate, is murdered. Father Mike, working with the local police and the FBI, follows the clues in a rapid paced, twist and turn story, trying to solve the problem of the terrorist plot and bring the anonymous trillionaire and others to justice.

Father T. Ronald Haney is a retired priest of 51 years in the diocese of Harrisburg, PA. He has been a Principal, a pastor, and for 30 years the Executive Editor of the diocesan newspaper, The Catholic Witness. This novel, The Priest and the Terrorists, is the third in the series of Father Mike Novels. The preceding two are The Priest and the Prostitutes and The Priest and the Assassin. He has also published three other novels: Assault on the Vatican, Idols of Power and Miracles, Sinners and Saints. He has published several books on the spiritual life. Among them, The Stations of the Cross, God Within You, Poems Inspired by the Jesus Story. He may be contacted at frhaney@hbgdiocese.org