The Pedophile Murders

What if villainous businessmen execute a plan to recruit preadolescent boys from among Brazil s homeless children smuggle them into the United States and sell them to rich pedophiles THE PEDOPHILE MURDERS provides a fictional answer to this question Pat Shannon a New Orleans attorney investigator accepts two new clients a priest and a nun The priest and nun have no knowledge of each other and need the lawyer s assistance for different reasons Father John Mulligan requests Pat to assist in finding a missing brother a mentally ill man who also suffers from the disease of pedophilia Sister Mary Margaret asks Pat to help identify the body of a murdered child whom the nun believes is her missing brother from Brazil She also requests the lawyer s assistance in securing American citizenship after she demits from Holy Orders The lawyer uncovers the Colonna crime family smuggling Brazilian street children into the United States and selling them to pedophiles Niccola Gabrini and Thomas Stuart run the pedophile operation in the United States In Brazil Captain Jose Porfirio a policeman and Piranhas a bronze orphan from the jungles recruit train and smuggle the children into the States One of the American pedophiles is sadistic and slaughters his victims one of whom is the nun s brother Pat s investigation propels him into the New Orleans underworld and places him in open conflict with the crime family As the story unfolds the lawyer and former nun fall in love Their plans for marriage are interrupted by Gabrini s attempt to assassinate Pat on the steps of Saint Louis Cathedral While Pat lingers between life and death the nun thinks her decision to demit Holy Orders may have contributed to this disturbing turn of events