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A Killing for Christ

By Pete Hamill
A Killing for Christ by Pete Hamill digital book - Fable

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A “fast-paced [and] stylishly punchy” thriller about an assassin targeting the pope, by the New York Times-bestselling author of Snow in August (The New York Times).

The man in priest’s garb gets out of the elevator at the top floor, leaving the gate ajar. He pulls out the loaded rifle he had hidden, and steps to the edge of the roof. St. Peter's Square is spread out before him like a great, colorful lake. There are more people than he has ever seen before.

Now the target arrives. The man on top of the building sights down the rifle at the small figure below. His finger is ready on the trigger, ready to gun down His Holiness, the Vicar of Christ...

The first novel by the prize-winning journalist and acclaimed author of A Drinking Life, Tabloid City, and other bestsellers, this tale of danger and espionage is “steeped in noir sensibility....a tense, page-turning thriller that is as pertinent today as it was when it was first published” (Shelf Awareness).

Includes a new introduction by the author

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“Pete Hamill's debut novel is one of the darkest books I've ever read. I don't need likable characters in order to enjoy a novel, I don't need pleasant settings to enjoy them, and I don't need a thriller to be all action and no character development. And that's a good thing because there are almost no likable characters in A Killing for Christ, and the Italian setting (including the Vatican) is dark, dreary, and depressing. No one everyone in the book was pissed at the world and wanted out of the lives they were living. Seems like the Vatican is so corrupt that a powerful insider and his minions want the Pope killed. Check that box. Seems like an American priest working in the Vatican for a complete jerk is more interested in sleeping with his young lover than in the Church. Check that box. Seems like the guy hired to assassinate the Pope is a moron American Nazi whose fantasies would be best sellers as snuff movies and porn films. Check that box. Lots of character development and one dud of an ending to this "thriller." Let's just say this wasn't too thrilling in any sense of the word, and it all makes me wonder why the publisher brushed it off for a 50th birthday reissuing”

About Pete Hamill

Pete Hamill was born in Brooklyn in 1935 and is, for many, the living embodiment of New York City. In his writing for the New York Daily News, the New York Post, and New York magazine, he has brought the city to life for millions of readers. He is the author of many bestselling books, including the novels Forever and Snow in August, as well the memoir A Drinking Life. He recently moved back to Brooklyn.Keith Szarabajka has appeared in many films, including The Dark Knight, Missing, and A Perfect World, and on such television shows as The Equalizer, Angel, Cold Case, Golden Years, and Profit. Szarabajka has also appeared in several episodes of Selected Shorts for National Public Radio. He won the 2001 Audie Award for Unabridged Fiction for his reading of Tom Robbins' Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates and has won several Earphones Awards.

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