A Prayer for the Dying

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2008
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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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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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Format: Paperback
Pages: 366
Edition: Reissue
Publisher: HarperFiction
Published: 01 Dec 2008
ISBN 10: 0007234880
ISBN 13: 9780007234882

Media Reviews

`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'
Daily Mail

Author Bio

Jack Higgins was a soldier and then a teacher before becoming a full-time writer. `The Eagle Has Landed' turned him into an international bestselling author and his novels have since sold over 250 million copies and been translated into fifty-five languages. Many of them have also been made into successful films.