The Wrath of God

by Jack Higgins

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Three desperate men. Each determined to flee his dark and violent past--only to find that violence is a way of life from which there is no escape... Emmet Keough: a trained assassin who no longer can remember how many men he has killed or why he killed them. Van Horre: priest, bank robber, murderer...saint. A man running from the law himself. Janos: businessman, hotel proprietor...gun runner. A mysterious man with an even more mysterious past. Three desperate men in a chaotic, war-torn land, show more joined together in a mission of death. show less

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Another early Higgins offering, originally published under the name James Graham.

What do you get if you take a bank robbing priest, a gun running businessman and an ex IRA hitman and set them in 1920's Mexico?

The answer is a thrilling novel that makes the pages fly by at an alarming rate.

The 3 characters are introduced early on in the novel and are forced to work together to kill a very dangerous man in exchange for their freedom. The novel details their adventures along the way and allows the reader to experience the full terror of post revolution mexico.

Expect many an individual to meet a sticky end in the usual way.

Again this book is written in the first person which really allows you to feel the tension build and when it's show more released you race along the page for the next action installment.

Whenever I read a Higgins novel I feel as if I have just sat through an amazing action packed film at the cinema, complete with surround sound and 3D. I try not to start one until the weekend as I usually finish it in one day, they really are that unputdownable.
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Set in Mexico in 1922. Features an Irish Republican Army protagonist and a fascinating "priest." Turns out the real author is Jack Higgins author of the Eagle has Landed. A couple of important characters are Yaqui Indians.
Three desperate men each try to escape their past in the chaos of 1920s Central America-only to find that violence is a way of life from which no one escapes unscarred.

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Jack Higgins is a writer and educator, born in Newcastle, England on July 17, 1929. The name is the pseudonym of Harry Patterson. He also wrote under the names of Martin Fallon, James Graham, and Hugh Marlowe during his early writing career. He attended Leeds Training College and eventually graduated from the University of London in 1962 with a show more B.S. degree in Sociology. Higgins held a series of jobs, including a stint as a non-commissioned officer in the Royal House of Guards serving on the German border during the Cold War. He taught at Leeds College of Commerce and James Graham College. He has written more than 60 books including The Eagle Has Landed, Touch the Devil, Confessional, The Eagle Has Flown, and Eye of the Storm. Higgins is also the author of the Sean Dillon series. His novels have since sold over 250 million copies and been translated into fifty-five languages. His title's The Death Trade and Rain on the Dead made The New York Times Best Seller List. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Guds vrede
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The Wrath of God (1972 | IMDb)
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Fiction and Literature, Suspense & Thriller
DDC/MDS
823.914Literature & rhetoricEnglish & Old English literaturesEnglish fiction1900-1901-19991945-1999
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PZ4 .H6367Language and LiteratureFiction and juvenile belles lettresFiction and juvenile belles lettresFiction in English
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