A Prayer for the Dying, Jack Higgins
A Prayer for the Dying, Jack Higgins
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A Prayer for the Dying

Author: Jack Higgins

Narrator: Michael Page

Unabridged: 6 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/15/2011

Synopsis

An ex-IRA soldier must save a priest targeted for elimination to gain absolution for his violent past.Everyone has demons to overcome, but Martin Fallon has more than most. A ruthless hitman and executioner for the IRA, Fallon is haunted by a mistake that led to the explosion of a school bus full of children. When he's threatened by the sadistic Meehan brothers, Fallon must agree to one last hit. But this time there's a witness: a priest named Father De Costa. And when everyone else wants the Father dead, Fallon is determined to protect him, to earn redemption from his life of crime and forgiveness for the blood on his hands.

About Jack Higgins

Since The Eagle Has Landed—one of the biggest-selling thrillers of all time—every novel Jack Higgins has written has become an international bestseller. He has had simultaneous number-one bestsellers in hardcover and paperback, and many of his books have been made into successful movies, including The Eagle Has Landed, To Catch a King, On Dangerous Ground, Eye of the Storm, and Thunder Point. He has degrees in sociology, social psychology, and economics from the University of London, and a doctorate in media from Leeds Metropolitan University. A fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and an expert scuba diver and marksman, Higgins lives in Jersey on the Channel Islands.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Paul

The prayer for the dying, in Catholic ritual, is associated with the Sacrament of the Sick (Extreme Unction), and it goes back to Chapter 5 of the Epistle of Saint James – “Is any sick among you? Let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the nam......more

Goodreads review by Roger

In the 1970s, when Higgins still taught adult education in Leeds and was clearly styling himself on Ted Lewis, he wrote some brilliant books. This was one of them. It got me reading as a kid back in the days when I hated school and ran away to join the army at 17. Sadly, when Higgins moved to Gurnse......more

Goodreads review by Philip

(Am traveling back in Taiwan, so brought along a stack of old "read and throw away" paperbacks, this being #1.) Very corny cliché-ridden story, but somehow 3-star fun nonetheless. Every character is a total caricature - the sensitive-yet-dead-inside hitman (who's also a classically-trained organist);......more

Goodreads review by Michael

I doubt I can contribute any insight into this fine novel beyond the thousands of reviews already out there. I read a few of Higgins' books ages ago, hadn't taken one up in decades, but saw 'A Prayer for the Dying' listed somewhere as being an underappreciated gem so I thought I'd seek it out. I'm g......more

Goodreads review by Aaron

Riveting, character-based IRS thriller makes sure to create ruthless baddies to torment the reluctant loner Irish badass into doing what he does best. Annihilate them all. A very sparse narrative keeps the pace fast. The British cliche' of keeping the nasties either perverts or homosexuals (or both)......more

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