USURPER - William D. Hoy

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Résumé :
Usurper was inspired from a true story of a young man named Antonio Ferretti in 1890s in Trenton, New Jersey, who used a priest name of Father Mariano Luca as his own in getting a job as an Italian priest in Denver, Colorado. The young man with no experience struggled but he endured and won over the towns people, including the local Bishop. He worked hard, getting a new church, built, but with controversy. Having a lonely life he secretly had a child. The railroad worked its way past their town bringing wealth, misery, happiness and unexpected tragedy. Father Luca accepted his challenge and secretly learned to be a priest never revealing his true identity. Performing funerals at the far away cemetery proved to be a challenge. Sometime later Father Luca's secret catches up with him and tragedy happens. The city remembers him by naming their new church after him.

Biographie:
William D. Hoy born in San Diego, California, raised in Chula Vista living on a farm until entering high School. Graduated from Chula Vista High, later graduated from Columbia College. He retired as Chief Warrant Officer Four with 26 years of active Army. In the early 2000s William started writing his first fiction novel, Undying, with many hit and misses finally getting it published. Now he is with a new publishing company Stratton-Press, and has written, Gotch'em-Johnny Taggett, a tough guy detective novel and, The Gifted One, an Sci Fi mystery. William is in the final stages of writing a sequel to, Gotch'em, called, The Killing Sound-Johnny Taggett, coming out in the middle of the year 2022. William is still dabbling in the movie business, looking for his next one. He's been in a dozen movies, maybe not the leading roles but he enjoys the challenge. He got a lot of ideas from the movies for his novels. His movie history can be located in the data base of the IMDB.