Feola's Cross

FEOLA’S CROSS sways with the pendulum of the public’s interest from escapism to the fascination of life’s cold realities.  This family’s 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 Joey’s grandmother, Josephine, before her prearranged marriage in America.  Ten years earlier, in his grandmother’s 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 Nick’s decision of retribution for his brother’s murder.