A PRAYER FOR THE DYING

by Jack Higgins ‧ RELEASE DATE: Jan. 24, 1973

Another Savage Day (1972) in which IRA patriot-executioner and embittered man uses the gun he gets from an ""importer"" where he sees fittest -- namely to kill, in a cemetery, an illegal operator in whores and drugs and then to carry on his vendetta against the Meehan brothers, one of whom is well protected by his mortuary-crematorium. (The not so baked meats here give this an ugly hook.) There's a slightly sentimental theological tussle -- shades of Greene -- between a priest more interested in saving souls than lives, but for the most part the book is as ""tough as old boots"" -- as they say around here -- and decisively exciting.

Pub Date: Jan. 24, 1973

ISBN: 1453200495

Page Count: -

Publisher: Holt, Rinehart & Winston

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Jan. 1, 1973

Categories: FICTION