The owner says that that rule applies only to white folks.ĭuring Easter week of 1967 I visited a good friend and Holy Cross classmate in New Orleans. Ben is in a general store (the year is 1908) and a young African-American boy asks the storeowner for the return deposit on two empty soda bottles he’s brought back. There is a section in Alex Cross's Trial where the main character, the passionately liberal attorney, Ben Corbett, witnesses one of the many acts of hatred toward blacks in his hometown of Eudora, Mississippi. It is a story that Alex Cross tells as a part of his family's oral history, a story of lynchings and horrid prejudice in early 20th century Mississippi. Alex Cross's Trial is not really about Alex Cross. We’ve heard there’s a scene in it that is taken from something you witnessed during one of your years at Holy Cross.Ī.
First, please tell us more about the new book. HCM chatted with DiLallo, the self-described “ham,” and got a warm, witty peek into his life as a writer and dad. Seems like a run-of-the-mill request, except that the boss is wildly popular novelist James Patterson, and the project was the latest installment in his best-selling Alex Cross series, Alex Cross’s Trial. with author Richard DiLallo ’68Īfter a long and storied career in advertising, Holy Cross alumnus Richard DiLallo ’68 got a call from one of his former agency bosses who needed help with a new project. Office of Recreation, Intramurals, and Club Sports.McFarland Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture.
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