Chapter 222 Beyond Control:>>9

• The month of January 2001
• Father John Tobias should never have been a priest, at least if you consider religion and ethics to be desirable qualities in a clergyman. In reality, he lacked both, but he had decided early on that some professions provided more opportunities to pursue his dreams than others - and wearing a dog collar was the best of them all.
• He was smart enough to know that you had to work hard if you wanted to reap what you deserved, and so he went about the business of the church with due diligence, undertaking his duties with humility and professionalism and plucking the ripe fruit of vulnerable and lonely people. In the two years of being the local Priest he had already amassed a considerable nest egg from several elderly widows who valued his companionship, and was intimate with three younger women who valued what was under his cassock.