About Pardon Me, Father
A diamond-smuggling priest in a love triangle?
An adventurous man, Walt Reca considers himself a blue-collar James Bond. After meeting an alluring beauty in Antwerp where he tries to cut and sell the rough diamonds he just smuggled out of Africa, he truly feels like the famed movie spy.
Walt’s penchant for risky adventure is paying off, even though he has no connections in the dangerous world of diamond mining. With guts, luck and true wit, he smuggles the rough stones out of Africa and trades them in the tightly-controlled gem market where independent contractors rarely succeed.
From warlords to armed commandos, his smuggling activities get progressively more precarious, but the real danger is deciding where his heart belongs: with his ex-wife with whom he recently reunited or his mysterious Antwerp lover.
Pardon Me, Father is a witty, mostly true story about a con man turned holy man who uses his military skills, Cold War experiences, and Catholic altar boy memories to mine for diamonds (legally) in Sierra Leone in the 1980s and smuggle them out (illegally) dressed as a priest.
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