Feola's Cross

FEOLAS CROSS sways with the pendulum of the publics interest from escapism to the fascination of lifes cold realities.  This familys story screams realism.

Joey Feola has only horror from perverse personal violation after his commitment to   Woodhaven Asylum.  He has no inkling that he will be murdered by a sadistic orderly, Willard Earle, for a carton of cigarettes.  But the carton of cigarettes will not be the only thing stolen the orderly accidently discovers a solid gold cross, inset with a precious ruby.  It is the Feola cross, bequeathed to Joeys grandmother, Josephine, before her prearranged marriage in America.  Ten years earlier, in his grandmothers darkened kitchen, eleven-year-old Nick Feola witnessed the passing of the cross to his older brother, Joey, and the passing of something darker; the family gene for schizophrenia.

At twenty-one, Nicky is drafted.  He survives boot camp, only to be sent to the gruesome bush of Vietnam.  It is in this dark arena vengeance rears its diabolical head beckoning Nicks decision of retribution for his brothers murder.