A Candle for Father Joe — Jerold Richert

Antonio wanted only to leave the mission school and return home with his father;s bicycle. But the rebel gang had other ideas. They had already killed the priest and mine company staff. All the locals and mission children had taken refuge in the security of the old stone church, but the gang had a shed full of explosive to blow it up and a foolish school boy to carry the bomb. Nothing could stop them.