International Best-Selling Author
NEW RELEASE
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BIO
Tom Bellino is the international best-selling author of BAC SI: A NOVEL. He is a former Navy Psychologist, and was also an emeritus member of the National Academy of Neuropsychology. His undergraduate degree, in Psychology, is from Marquette University, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and his master’s and doctoral degrees are from The Catholic University of America, in Washington, D.C. He completed his Internship in Clinical Psychology, at the National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda Naval Hospital. After the Navy, he earned another master’s degree, also from The Catholic University of America, in Modern Languages and Literature. He has been on the faculty of several universities, including American University in Washington, D.C., and the University of Hawaii.
An avid runner, albeit a back-of-the packer, he has completed several marathons including New York, Marine Corps, and Honolulu. He also enjoys scuba diving and sailing, but mostly enjoys spending time with his family, especially if that means being all together in Bella Roma.
ABOUT The FISHERMAN'S RING
From Tom Bellino, the International Best Selling Author of BAC SI: A NOVEL, comes his NEW thriller, THE FISHERMAN’S RING.
The first Black, African Pope has been elected in Papal Conclave. A terrorist plot has been uncovered to not only assassinate the new pontiff, but also to destroy all vestiges of the “infidel religion,” namely the Vatican Museum, Archives, and the Sistine Chapel.
The plot was discovered through an intercepted code word, in a rare and esoteric language that less than a thousand people on earth either speak or understand...ITALKIAN.
The race is on to intercept the terrorists. And how does the Ring of the Fisherman, enter the story? The reader will have to wait until the end...IF IT IS THE END.
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ABOUT BAC SI
"LSD? LSD! You want me to turn on an entire platoon of Viet Cong? FUBAR!"
Navy Lieutenant Thomas Staffieri grew up in a gritty, multi-ethnic, steel town. He learned many things growing up there, but he could never imagine that he would take some of those things with him so many years later, and to so many different places. He learned languages, and found that he had a real knack for them. This language ability served him well in his field of psychology, but also propelled him into a situation which brought him into a moral conflict...WAR.
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As a Navy Psychologist, he was assigned to the Hospital Ship Repose, off the coast of Vietnam. It soon became apparent that not only were his psychological treatment skills needed, but his language skills as well. During his internship, the polyglot had learned Vietnamese. That made him even more necessary to the mission of war, and that took him "in-country." It was there that he learned what the 1000 yard stare was...PERSONALLY
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In college he met someone who would have a profound effect on him for all of his life. Having left her in college, he soon realized that he never really did leave her, and so many years later he had to try and reconnect with her. There was something only she could help him resolve...THE WAR AND WHAT HE DID THERE.