Three Cheers for Father Donovan

About the Book

Yearning to receive absolution that will forgive “a platitude of sins” during his lifetime of service to the Roman Catholic Church as a curate of Rome, the dying Father Patrick O’Flannery Donovan of the Society for Jesus makes his last confession. That confession transforms into a full exposition of the triumphs and tragedies befalling his Holy Mother Church during the twentieth century. However, while this confession is a compelling history of Vatican City, it is an account the Holy See is desperate to forever keep hidden from the lay public. But can a monumental, epic story of this caliber truly remain eternally classified as secrets of the State?

About the Author

John D. Loscher holds a Masters Degree in Public Administration and is a State of Illinois Certified Teacher. He served in the United States Air Force as both enlisted airman and commissioned officer. A veteran of the 1991 Persian Gulf War, he is a lifetime writer of scholarly papers and military reports. Only recently did he turn his attention to writing fiction. His most recent novel, The Heart of the Matter, was released in 2014. Additionally, he is the author of the epic two-volume narrative, The Bolsheviks. He is also dramatist for a highly successful trilogy of novels: Coming Out of the Dark, The Black Madonna, and In the Hands of the Gods. Writing under the penname of J.D. Cooper, he penned the novel Window to the Soul. He is currently hard at work researching and writing his next novel.