The Strange Death of Father Candy: A Suspense Novel Review

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The Strange Death of Father Candy: A Suspense Novel ReviewNot since this summer and reading Jodi Picoult's Nineteen Minutes has a novel stayed with me the way The Strange Death of Father Candy seems to be. I didn't expect this novel to be so gripping. I expected it to be as formulaic as Roberts' Milan Jacovich novels have become. Certainly, we are reminded (somewhat too) constantly that the main character, Dominick Candiotti is a Viet Nam War Veteran, who in his assignment as a Black Op assasin, committed heinous crimes in the name of war and our country. But we are spared the restaurant tours, weather reports, city tours and fashion reviews of the Milans.
"Nick" Candiotti is not a nice person. There is nothing likeable about him. He grew up mean and tough on the dirty, poor streets of Youngstown, Ohio, mostly unaware of and when he grew up, accepting of his family's association with The Mob influence in that city. Then, he abandoned his family and friends, including the woman he says he loved, to move to Chicago to make a new life for himself. When his favorite brother, Richard, a priest, supposedly commits suicide, Nick returns to Youngstown to investigate his brother's death, and insinuates himself back into his family, his association with both ruling Mob Families in the city and into bed with his now-married lover whose sexual preferences have come to include firm roots in S & M. His sister, Teresa, delivers what is most probably the best speech in the book when she screams at him to return to Chicago, that he isn't wanted or welcome in Youngstown any longer and that the city would be no worse off if he weren't there. She exemplifies all of the women in the book. No female character in the book seems to have any redeeming qualities, even down to a hotel desk clerk who, mercifully, is not described as "adorable". Nick is the only one who wants justice for his brother and will not accept, as the others have, that Fr. Candy's death was "just" a suicide. The ending of the book is bloody and gruesome as Nick extracts his revenge for his brother's death. And, we reach the last chapter of the book not liking Nick any more than we did at the first.
I know that this novel was "in the works" for quite some time. This is obvious. It is a tightly written, absorbing read. Even I cannot find much fault with what Roberts has set down on the pages. It's obvious that he did his homework on this one. He's back with a wonderful publisher and seems to have availed himself of their professional proof-readers and red-pencil wielders. I would love to see this novel climb up the charts. Nice work, Sparky. You've got a winner with this one.

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