The Promise of God: A Novel

With a popular Brazilian Cardinal, the outspoken Isaac Benda Cortes, set to be elected pope, a drug cartel targets him for execution. Original. 50,000 first printing.

David Shapiro is a pianist-composer who attended Northwestern University and Berklee College of Music. He has written music for theater and television, screenplays, and speeches for major corporations. He met his wife three weeks into college and proposed to her two days later. Now, after twenty-five years, they have four children. After suffering the agonizing loss of his sister to breast cancer, he was driven to write this book. He is a lifelong fanatic Chicago White Sox fan and waits faithfully for their eventual triumph