| Title: |
The Only Good Priest (#3 in the Tom and Scott series) |
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| Author: |
Mark Richard Zubro |
| Published by: |
St. Martin's Press, 1991 |
| ISBN: |
0-312-05486-6 [hardcover, 182 pages] |
Father Sebastian, the only good priest everybody knows,
is dead. Pastor of a small suburban parish just outside Chicago, Father
Sebastian was also heavily involved in Chicago's gay community through
his work with Faith, the gay Chicago organization the diocese is trying
to drive out of the Church.
Suburban high school teacher Tom Mason, who has gained some local notoriety
from his involvement in a couple of murder cases, is asked by gay friends
to look into the priest's death: was it murder? At first Tom refuses, but
when his favorite nephew, a member of Father Sebastian's parish, is threatened
and then disappears, Tom's concern turns to fury at those responsible.
Along with his lover, the professional baseball player Scott Carpenter,
Tom plunges into a well of ecclesiastical intrigues that take him into
the hidden underground of gay Chicago and the tragedies caused by a hypocritical
Church.
