On the Side of the Road

On a dirt road in Barranquilla, Colombia sometime in the 1970's a mother of baby twin boys is forced to make the most difficult decision of her life. One of her sons grows to become a major part of the Cali Cartel drug trafficking world. The other boy's life remains a mystery until the drug dealer son begins searching for his lost twin.

On a dirt road in Barranquilla, Colombia sometime in the 1970's a mother of baby twin boys is forced to make the most difficult decision of her life. One of her sons grows to become a major part of the Cali Cartel drug trafficking world. The other boy's life remains a mystery until the drug dealer son begins searching for his lost twin.

Born in The Bronx in 1950 Romano's writing career began at age 58 with Fish Farm. Then INTERCESSION, a bloody revenge thriller, which earned him the title of 2014 Foreword Review Top Finalist. BESA, winning six international film awards for its screenplay (2012 Winner: NYLA Int. Film Festival: 2012 Winner: California Film Awards; Winner: Bloody Hero Int. Film Festival; 2013 Winner: Paradigm Script Pipeline: 2013 Winner: Best Script Honolulu Film Awards) has been translated into Albanian from which the word BESA is derived. It means the 'promise' or 'code'... an organized crime novel. Romano has 19 published novels.