Prayer : A Novel (Paperback)

from adpaton

Former Catholic Scottish ex-pat Gil Martins lives in Houston, Texas, works for the FBI, and together with his wife is a member of an Evangelical mega-church. When he starts to have doubts, she kicks him out and his old friend the Catholic Bishop comes to the rescue, offering a place to live in th...

from BillPilgrim

I've read a couple of Kerr's Bernie Gunther books and enjoyed those, so I thought I would like this one. But, I didn't. I found it so annoying, the way the people in the book were behaving in the major end section where it got the most thrillery. It was so totally unbelievable to me that they wou...

from btuckertx

"Prayer", by Philip Kerr is definitely a surprise read. With no other frame of reference to Kerr's work than his Bernie Gunther hard-case detective novels, I suppose I expected something similar, so it took a few pages to get into the story.But once it got going, it was one heckuva fun ride, with...

from Teritree001971

PRAYER tells the story of FBI agent Gil Martins as he loses his faith in God and then how he finally finds it once more. He is not a perfect man, nor is he what one would call one of God's heroes. The story begins with Martin finally losing his faith after finding out he helped send an innocent m...

from Stahl-Ricco

A real page turner! An FBI agent grapples with his faith while he investigates a series of strange deaths. Along the way, he has to decide - is God the fire and brimstone Old Testament God, or the New Testament fatherly love God - or both? And can he survive the answer? As it is written in Hebrew...