What is the role of the Catholic characters – Sister Mary and Father Bob?
They represent one side in a multi-layered argument going on inside Buchanan. Spiritual interest is high in society right now, and why wouldn’t it be, with the way things are? The search for answers is strong now, and I like having several different characters for Buchanan to play off. There is Sister Mary Veritas, the basketball playing nun, and Father Bob, as you mentioned. There’s also Barton C. “Pick” McNitt, a former philosophy professor who went crazy and now runs a coffee bar where Ty meets his clients. McNitt is an atheist who rails, Howard Beale style, against societal ills. Then there’s the simple innocence of a child, Kylie, who Ty has to protect. All these things swirl around him as he deals with the loss of the woman he was going to marry. How many more books can we expect in the Ty Buchanan series and what’s his next adventure? The next one is Try Fear (mid-2009). This one is going to have a full on murder trial, and takes place mostly in Hollywood. I’d love to keep the s
