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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Author Bio:
LISA STORY is a public relations professional, mother of two talented daughters, wife and epee fencer. Pardon Me, Father is her first published work, but not her only book about her uncle Walt Reca.
CARL LAURIN was a father, a husband to Loretta for 59 years, and a member of the U.S. Parachute Association. He was the best friend of D.B. Cooper, a.k.a. Walter Reca. He became an author by chance. When his Michigan Parachute Team friends reunited for their annual “Billabog,” they told fantastic stories about their many adventures. They said someone needed to record the stories before everyone died and their exploits were lost to history and faded into oblivion. Carl, whose nickname was Charlie Brown partially because of his natural ability to tell a story, was nominated for the tall task. He wrote his books by hand on yellow legal pads and then hired someone to type up the manuscripts. Pardon Me, Father is one of several true adventures he recorded, but only the second to be published. He also is the author of D.B. Cooper & Me: A Criminal, A Spy, My Best Friend.”