Interview With Aaron Baker Cole, Author of "Necessary Evil"

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Aaron is here to discuss his new book "Necessary Evil" a novel built around the modern sexual abuse crisis among priests in the Roman Catholic Church.

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Aaron Baker Cole has spent much of his expert life in the technical sector, supporting private and government programs in the fields of space technology and national security. Mr. Cole lives and writes in southern California.

Tyler: Welcome, Aaron. I'm pleased to have you here today. I don't believe the topic of the sexual abuse scandal in "Necessary Evil" will be unfamiliar to any of our readers. To begin, I would like to know why, when so much concentration has already been given to the matter of sexual abuse within the Catholic Church, that you felt the need to write your book about the matter?

Aaron: As reports of priest-predation of the young began to mount in the local and national media, the topic slowly found a place in my mind alongside another theme that had been on a slow boil for a whole of years--my unplotted assassin novel. It wasn't long before the two items melded seamlessly, and "Necessary Evil" was born.

Tyler: I want to make it clear to our readers that "Necessary Evil" is a novel. It is not about the sexual abuse scandal among priests so much as a novel based upon the abuse. Aaron, would you tell us a puny bit about the plot of the novel, and how the sexual abuse scandal is treated in it?

Aaron: The definite topic of sex abuse by Catholic priests is revealed slowly in "Ne." The matter evolves as the main character, Billy Hawkins, is introduced and progresses from a young, thirteen-year old Louisiana lad, to a collegian in hunt of direction for his life. We all trudge down pretty much the same trail, but Billy's path is a tad more difficult than most. In his youth, Billy recognizes that his dossier of human qualities is not quite complete. Though possessing a degree of empathy, he finds that in some situations, when convinced that serious corrections are required, he can plan and execute terminal events absent the impeding baggage of conscience.

Billy realizes that without a great deal of operate over his actions, his life could lead rapidly into chaos. Two terminal events, the preliminary one when he is still thirteen, and another in his early college years at Rice University, combine to force Billy to confront two issues: 1) he has acquired sufficient operate over what he has come to reconsider his extra quality, so that he can lead a reasonably general life; and 2) appearing to be "reasonably normal," leaves him unfulfilled with regard to major injustices that he still sees around him.

As Billy is evolving, "Ne" introduces a background of events of sex abuse by Catholic priests, and a combine of other individuals who will later have major roles in Billy Hawkins' life.

Tyler: Aaron, I understand the book begins of course with the main character, Billy Hawkins, while still a young teenager, murdering his stepfather for being abusive to his mother and getting away with the crime, which he feels is a "necessary evil." Why did you feel the need to contain this event in the plot and how does it work on Billy's character and his desire to enter the seminary?

Aaron: The elimination of Billy's stepfather includes rather a lot of detail that went into the act. The detail is there to lend credence to the eventual ensue of Billy getting away with the murder. This concentration to detail is gift in all of Billy's prosperous elimination events later in life. Without the detail, the reader would be left naturally to trust that Billy had attended to things. I've read too many so-called thrillers that saunter this way, and I feel that the reader is being short-changed when he is naturally asked to believe that somehow all the unaddressed issues were covered.

Back to your question, Tyler, the preliminary elimination event--you'll note that I tend often to sidestep the word "murder;" I'll have to ask my shrink about that--is required to illuminate how Billy uses his incomplete set of human constraints to his advantage. The eventual lesson is not just for the reader, but also for Billy. Billy is served the graphic lesson that unhindered by an overbearing conscience he can bring justice where no justice is on the horizon.

Oh yes, the seminary. Well, the original elimination event--there I go again--has no bearing on Billy's eventual decision many years later to enter seminary life on the path to becoming a priest. The event is naturally to exhibit Billy's capability for cold, detailed planning and execution. It is essential for the reader to know that Billy did not just happen on this realization as an adult. He was given evidence of it early in life, learned to operate it through adolescence, and was later presented with an unplanned opportunity artlessly to employ his gift in defense of another individual, who had and would continue to have a extra role in his life.

Tyler: Billy sounds like one in a series of fictional American heroes who takes the law into their own hands. How would you define the moral perspective of a man who kills another human being he deems evil without regard for the fact that he is himself breaking the law?

Aaron: perfect question, and one I exertion to address in the book. Indeed, the story is about vengeance and vigilantism--matters to be avoided lest they lead us into chaos. Still, they remain with us and I find puny evidence that they will soon be absent from the world's daily record.

Billy is not ignorant of the downside of vigilantism, and of course goes through an internal moot on the matter. How does he reconcile his decision to perform terminal acts in response to priest-pedophilia? He does what we all do--he rationalizes his decision as being an interim phase, one he will pursue for a time and then ... Well, a possible time to come is graphic through a fog of uncertainty.

Anyway, it is never Billy's intention to purge the Catholic Church of its aberrant priests. That's crazy talk. He views the Church as collaborating in the sex abuse activities by reassigning offending clerics and subordinating the damage done by them to the greater good of the Catholic universe. Billy's goal is to raise the concentration of the princes of the Church and cause them to make favorable adjustment to the vetting process employed in their option of clergyman candidates.

Tyler: A reader ordinarily needs to care about the main character to make a story interesting. What about Billy's character makes him attractive?

Aaron: Yes, Billy is at best a essential evil, and it was, in turn, essential to infuse him with human qualities that would warm him to the reader.

I don't want to give too much away, but I will say that while Billy is absent a degree of conscience as regards what he views as his personal acts of retribution, he is not without empathy. It is, in fact, what one might realize to be an overdeveloped degree of empathy that causes him to come to the defense of those he sees as undefended. In Billy Hawkins we find an individual with a defective set of human attributes: an overly advanced empathic capability and an undeveloped conscience. It's my hope that the reader will see this as the deadly combination I feel it can be.

Tyler: Aaron, among the citizen Billy executes are priests who have committed sexual abuses. Obviously, this plot twist has to be determined controversial. What kind of response have you received from readers about Billy's actions, and in general the branch matter of sexual abuse within the Catholic Church?

Aaron: Readers thus far have approved Billy in the context he is presented, an outlaw on the side of the angels, an outlaw whose acts, while of course unethical, may not be so of course dismissed on a moral basis. I sense most readers do not thoroughly embrace Billy's character until the end of the book. A equilibrium must be drawn.

While some priests--Monsignor Richard S. Sniezyk leaps to mind--defend the past actions of sex-offending priests, I have found no readers of "Ne" who are not enraged at the Vatican's irresponsible avoidance of the issue. Even today, forced into superficial action, the Vatican has sent representatives to U.S. Monasteries to reinforce the old 1961 recipe of ensuring that practicing homosexuals are not approved as clergyman candidates. They ignore two main issues: 1) homosexuals aren't the problem; pedophiles are the problem, and pedophiles have no greater representation among homosexuals than among heterosexuals; and 2) the Church has made no mention of the potentially huge citizen of pedophiles who passed their unguarded gates into the priesthood and remain active priests. The most logical hypothesize for the Church's ineffective response is clear: responding to a questionnaire about one's current or modern homosexual proclivities is much easier--not to mention far less expensive--than a full blown campaign to analyze the world's citizen of Catholic Priests for the thinking disease of pedophilia.

Tyler: The Catholic Church has always been opposed to homosexuality, labeling homosexual acts, if not homosexuality itself, as a sin. However, you make the point that homosexuality is not necessarily the issue, but rather pedophilia. Could you talk a puny bit about the dissimilarity and why this matter needs to be better understood?

Aaron: I think I've just covered that to the extent that I'm qualified. My sense is that priests practicing their homosexual preferences among one another or with secular adults, may offend the Church's celibacy doctrine, but pedophilia and the betrayal of the young in their fee can not be excused on the part of any clergyman or other human being.

Tyler: Aaron, may I ask about your own religious background, especially if you're Catholic or not, and how that has made you react to the Catholic Church's sexual abuse scandal?

Aaron: My parents were exposed to a protestant religion in their youth. Although neither of them came away filled with religious fervor, they made two brief attempts to expose me, their only child, to what benefits there might be in organized religion. Over a duration of some months when I was 9 or 10 years old, and again when I was in my early teens, we attended church services. We didn't join the congregation as lawful members, did not take part in other than the weekly service, and soon ceased each experiment.

I must add that in my late teens, it occurred to me that possibly the experiment had not yet run its course. I decided to make a final exertion to ferret out for myself the benefits that others were looking in going to church. What I found was that I came away each time feeling emptier than the time before. In my defense, I had read the Bible by that time, and even today employ it and linked religious historical texts as reference material. thinking back, it seems that I was mostly put off by a examine that I stop request questions and just have faith.

Over the intervening years, I have come to be convinced that having faith in something exterior one's self is ill advised, especially if that faith is settled upon the whimsical nature of some spiritual entity who seems to play fast and loose with his creations--for reasons that are passed off as being intentionally beyond our understanding.

In argument with my friends-of-faith, I find that what most binds them to their selected flavor of religious dogma is fear--fear of death without the hope of some renewed life somewhere in the great beyond. The belief of an irrevocable end to their aware existence is often sufficient to place them in such a nervous state that they must end the conversation. I find this to be the major fault with organized religion. It weakens us. It demands that instead of building up our own strengths and capabilities, request questions and acquiring knowledge to the extent that we can fully depend upon ourselves for the hold we need to go through life, we are encouraged to stop at some undefined point and naturally have faith. Then, as though this doesn't weaken their followers enough, organized religions of all stripes identify penalties for disobeying religious tenets and often threaten their flock by restricting the final reward of a rapturous existence after death if they stray from a faith-based path defined for them. It's puny wonder that the advice to stand alone and face a time-limited existence scares the hell out of some folks.

Sorry about the hell thing. That doesn't exist either--except as we may have created it for ourselves.

You also asked how my religious background might have played into my vociferous, negative reaction to sexual abuse of the young by Catholic priests. It's probably clear by now that my own religious background was nearly nonexistent and had no bearing at all upon my inflammatory response to the matter. I doubt that my feelings in this matter are very different than anyone not linked with the Catholic hierarchy. I am incensed at the advice of any degree of molestation or sexual abuse of the young. And my fury is increased by orders of magnitude when the perpetrators of such acts are individuals who know they have a accountability to safe the youngsters in their care. My anger goes off the charts when such perpetrators are minions of an organized religion that serves as the gateway to its adopted deity. And when the hierarchy of such an assosication sees more advantage in sheltering its aberrant servants rather than attending to those abused by them ... Well, there's no chart-space left to plot my addition rage.

Tyler: Thank you, Aaron, for the honest response. Has anyone reacted negatively to your book? As a Catholic myself, I have heard it said the media is anti-Catholic and is just ignoring scandals in other denominations? Have you been accused of just fueling the fire?

Aaron: I haven't yet received a negative reaction to the main theme of the book. I know one devout Catholic who refused to read it. another individual read it up to a point where I have a scene describing a clergyman taking sexual advantage of a young man in his charge. Although the scene is subdued and not intended as a titillating graphic element, some citizen can more of course accept the fact that abuse occurs without dealing with it at a detailed level. I feel that raising the curtain and revealing the unreported aspects of sexual abuse of the young is required to expose the extent to which childhood is stolen and life potentially ended when such events occur.

Tyler: Aaron, for citizen who are not at all curious in reading about the sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic Church, what about "Necessary Evil" will still make it enjoyable or lively to read?

Aaron: I think "Ne" can be appreciated as a thriller without necessarily invoking the reader's position about priest-pedophilia. While we have concentrated on Billy Hawkins while our discussion, I should point out that there are several lively supporting characters in "Ne." Though it may sound surprising, Billy has a soul mate, Jenna Whitman. Jenna has been a friend of Billy's from his childhood in the bayous of Louisiana. Theirs is a unique, mysterious relationship that gives the hint of a future, but not a promise. There is also Billy's clerical hold group, consisting primarily of Monsignor Nicholas Montalvo and Brother Miguel Rodriguez. Billy's efforts would be nearly impossible--and at best very risky--without these individuals. A seasoned veteran of the Seattle Police force is also kicked into play when a joint Fbi/Police task force is formed to put an end to Billy's evil ways. And various evil players are given the breath of life, and death, as they come to be targets for Billy's odyssey of presenting an object lesson for the Catholic Church.

Tyler: Are Billy and Jenna in love with each other? If so, what did you do to make it believable that Jenna could love Billy?

Aaron: another good question. Are Billy and Jenna in love? I would have to hypothesize that the feelings between Billy and Jenna transcend love. Their relationship goes beyond the conventional belief of love and enters into a region as yet unexplored in the human equation.

Regarding how Jenna could love Billy, I would have to say that she hadn't much option in the matter. The subconscious bond between them was not of their making. It naturally existed, and as an existing fact was accepted. Any other response would have driven them mad.

Tyler: Aaron, in writing thrillers, have any other writers been an work on upon you?

Aaron: I've taken up quite a bit of your time, Tyler, so let me make this talk short. I didn't write "Necessary Evil" with a genre in mind. Everything today seems to require classification, so the book was slotted as a thriller.

That said, I don't believe that any writer of thrillers had an work on on me. However, if you're curious in my beloved thriller novel, that would be, "When Michael Calls," by John Farris. I know it's cliché, but I couldn't put it down, and it raised the hairs on the back of my neck. I think one of the top tributes to a novel is the difficulty Hollywood has in turning it into a movie that renders anyone close to the original intensity of the novel. Such was the case with the sorry, made-for-Tv exertion of "When Michael Calls."

Tyler: What about television and film? Television is filled with crime and detective shows today?

Aaron: I must confess that I watch too much Tv, and am disappointed in most of it. I also see quite a whole of movies, but have been disappointed with Hollywood offerings for most of the last fifteen years or so.

It has not been my recipe to ensue the example of any definite novelist or Tv or movie screenwriter. I of course have my favorites, but I would never exertion to ensue anyone's style. That's not to say that it hasn't been recommend that I do so, however.

Tyler: What kind of writing are you working on right now?

Aaron: As you know, my novel, "Forms of Madness," was recently published. The story postulates an international conspiracy that may have played a part in the accelerated closure to the Us/Ussr cold war. of course the cold war went on for decades, but the end phase was abrupt. And beyond the threat of President Reagan's star wars fictions and the real possibility of the Ussr, a nuclear superpower, bankrupting itself to keep up, we have no solid basis for the roller coaster slide from the Ussr's devotion to socialism to its adoption of the totally unfamiliar tenets of democracy. "Forms Of Madness" attempts to bring some closure to the matter.

The novel I'm working on now deals with the possible ensue of ignoring obvious of the world's suffering social groups. I'd like to say more, but I'm only in the early phase of plot development.

Tyler: Both books sound lively Aaron. I wish we had more time to discuss them in added detail. I've always wanted to understand better how the Ussr fell away from socialism. Unfortunately, our time is approximately up, but before we go, Aaron, would you tell our readers where they may find more data about "Necessary Evil" or go to order the book?

Aaron: I have material about Ne and something of a blog type posting at Amazon.com. At Amazon, a reader will also find data about my modern book, "Forms of Madness." Most of the available data on me and about my books can also be found at Alibris, and other book vendor Websites. The books can be ordered at any book vendor Websites, or can be ordered through any brick-and-mortar bookstore.

Readers with questions, comments or criticisms are welcome to feel me through my publisher at iUniverse.com.

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