Pagan Babies (Random House Large Print) - Tapa dura

The only survivor of a genocidal massacre in Rwanda, priest Father Terry Dunn, exacts revenge on the killers and returns to the U.S. to join forces with comedienne Debbie Dewey, an ex-con, to raise money both for Rwandan orphans and to score off an associate of the Detroit Mafia who had once conned Debbie out of thousands of dollars. 12,500 first printing. (Suspense)

ring the genocide, Hutu thugs storm into a church and kill everyone except Father Terry Dunn, on the alter saying his first mass. He's powerless to do anything about it--until one day he faces several of the killers and exacts a chilling penance.  But is Terry Dunn really a priest?  

He doesn't always appear to act like one. He comes home to Detroit and runs into Debbie Dewey who's doing standup at a comedy club. In her set, Debbie tells what it was like in prison, down for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Terry and Debie hit it off; they have the same sense of humor and similar goals in that both are out to raise money. Terry says for the Little Orphans of Rwanda; Debbie to score off a guy who conned her out of sixty-seven thousand dollars. This is Randy, now wealthy, who runs a fashionable restaurant and is connected to the Detroit Mafia.

It's Debbie who keeps prying until she learns the bizarre truth about Terry; Debbie who sells him on going in