NYPD Detective Shea Flaherty has less than a day to find a priceless religious relic, save his kidnapped son and avenge his father's death.
About In the Name of the Father
The Spear of Destiny—used by a Roman centurion almost 2000 years ago at the Crucifixion of Christ to prove Jesus was dead on the Cross— has long thought to carry with it magical powers for it's possessor. In 1939, Adolf Hitler—embarking on his World Domination tour—has his #2, Heinrich Himmler, take the True Spear of Destiny from the Hapsburg Museum during the Annexation of Austria.
It's now the 5th Anniversary of 9-11 and Irish Flaherty (84)—a WW2 hero who was captured by the Nazi's in 1944 and escaped after stealing the Spear of Destiny —mysteriously dies and takes the location of the Spear to his grave.
His son, NYPD Detective Shea Flaherty finds a cryptic message from his late father— instructions and a code to the location of the Spear of Destiny that the old man hid away sixty-two years ago. Shea finds that the Spear may not be just a relic with mystical powers but the key to something so valuable that some people will stop at nothing to obtain it.
The stakes are raised when Shea's teenage son is kidnapped. Shea must stay one step ahead of an International assassin, a Saudi drug dealer and a madman in Syria—all of whom are hell-bent on finding the Spear—to save his family, avenge his father and find the Spear of Destiny.
About the Author
Thomas Xavier Cross was born in Brooklyn, New York and raised on Long Island and is currently restoring an 85 year old Cape Cod home in East Islip. A Purdue University graduate, he spent twenty-two years on Wall Street. His first short story, “IS TODAY THE DAY”, was published back in December 2020 in Yellow Mama magazine. “IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER-a Thriller”, is his first full-length novel.
Praise
“Fresh, new, and impossible to put down, Thomas X. Cross displays
a unique voice and smooth prose to go with a super-charged story
that starts fast and only grows more relentless from there. ”
—Ryan Steck, The Real Book Spy
Other Writing
I was first offered The Job towards the end of my senior year at Purdue University. That was thirty five years ago—1985. I thought it was because I did two internships at Brookhaven National Laboratory working in Applied Physics and Engineering and that I had my senior thesis “A Look at Optical Molasses and Advanced Laser Cooling Techniques” being published in Photonics Spectra magazine. Later, I realized it was that, but also, I had no real family...
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