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A Prayer for the Dying
- Author
- Jack Higgins
- Narrator
- Andy Cresswell
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Publish Date
- 20 June 2019
- Run Time
- 6 hours 41 minutes
- Format
- x-book®
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What to expect
The classic bestseller from the master of the game.
No one becomes a contract killer and expects to hang around to collect a pension. Sooner or later, even the best in their field make mistakes. Even Martin Fallon, the most ruthless hitman of them all.
Fallon was the best you could get with a gun in his hand, but his first mistake was to cross powerful crime boss Jack Meehan, and his last, to seek redemption for his soul…
Critics Review
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‘Tough, bitter, superbly written’ The New York Times
‘A compulsively readable storyteller’ Sunday Express
‘Higgins is a master of his craft’ Daily Telegraph
‘A thriller writer in a class of his own’ Financial Times
‘The master craftsman of good, clean adventure’
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Details
- Author
- Jack Higgins
- Narrator
- Andy Cresswell
- Duration
- 6 hours 41 minutes
- Release Date
- 20 June 2019
- ISBN
- 9780008359096
- Format
- x-book®
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Genre
- Adventure / action fiction, Thriller: organised crime, Crime & mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction, Political / legal thriller, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Fiction based on or inspired by true events, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss
Synopsis
The classic bestseller from the master of the game.No one becomes a contract killer and expects to hang around to collect a pension. Sooner or later, even the best in their field make mistakes. Even Martin Fallon, the most ruthless hitman of them all.Fallon was the best you could get with a gun in his hand, but his first mistake was to cross powerful crime boss Jack Meehan, and his last, to seek redemption for his soul…
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