Louis Romano

Louis Romano (1950- ) is of Sicilian descent. He grew up in The Bronx, NY and attributes his books' themes largely to that heritage and circumstance. His writing career began at age 60 with INTERCESSION, a bloody revenge thriller, which earned him the title of 2014 Foreword Review Top Finalist. BESA, winning six international film awards for its screenplay (2012 Winner: NYLA Int. Film Festival; 2012 Winner: California Film Awards; Winner: Bloody Hero Int. Film Festival; 2013 Winner: Paradigm Script Pipeline; 2013 Winner: Best Script Honolulu Film Awards) has been translated into Albanian from which the word BESA is derived. It means the 'promise' or 'code'... an organized crime novel. Romano has 17 published novels.