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	A Predator Priest (kindle Single) [kindle Edition] Amazon.com September 14, 2011 http://www.amazon.com/Predator-Priest-Kindle-Single-ebook/dp/B005DTSE7Y Amazon.com Review Generalities, by definition, obscure specifics. So while the rampant scandal of pedophilic priests continues to make fodder for highly publicized legal settlements and late-night talk-show jokes, the individual stories of legions of victims and perpetrators often get lost in the noise. Author David Margolick seeks to remedy this in telling the tale of Father Bernard Bissonnette, a remorseless priest whose victims included one Tommy Deary. Deary's eventual suicide provoked his family to pursue Bissonnette through a wake of victims that crossed the United States and spanned decades, despite the Church's repeated efforts to deal with Bissonnette by simply transferring him to new parishes, where--time and again--he found new victims and in some cases, even collaborators. The story is as abstractly familiar as it is uniquely dismal, but girded by Margolick's in-depth research and interviews with most of those involved, it offers a singular look behind the screaming headlines. --Jason Kirk
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