Author: Leo Cavanagh
Publication Date: 7 September 2010
Publisher: 3Score Publishing Ltd
What does the picture of naked boy archers sent to a Sunday paper mean? Who did it come from? – an abused whistle-blower afraid to give his name? Against a backdrop of clerical abuse cases all over the world, atheist Mike and Catholic Alexis race to find the clerics concerned, in England and Rome. They want to get the evidence against a high-ranking cleric guilty of abuse over 30 years ago, by the time of the Pope’s autumn visit to Britain in 2010. For what? - just media exposure? Is that justice?
Based on the experience of abuse by the author and his friends, SSS is written under a pseudonym to protect the identity of those abused. Fired by a hunger for justice it is a compelling read, and the characters’ complexity, courage and ambiguity make for a lot of puzzling about the outcome.
Leo Cavanagh’s book marks the appearance of a new crime genre where bishops with crooks take over from crooked cops. Expect a death, real evil, less than perfect ‘good guys’, and even a drop of hooch.
