Prayers for the Assassin

By: Robert Ferrigno

Narrated by: Armand Schultz

Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins

Publisher's summary

Seattle, 2040. The Space Needle lies crumpled. Veiled women hurry through the busy streets. Alcohol is outlawed, replaced by Jihad Cola, and mosques dot the skyline. New York and Washington, D.C., are nuclear wastelands. Phoenix is abandoned, Chicago the site of a civil war battle. At the edges of the empire, Islamic and Christian forces fight for control of a very different United States.

Enormous in scope and brilliantly imagined, Prayers for the Assassin promises to be the powerhouse listen of the year. Burning with cinematic violence, fiendish betrayal, and global intrigue, Robert Ferrigno's sensational thriller asks: What would happen to America if the terrorists won?

After simultaneous suitcase-nuke attacks destroy New York, Washington, D.C., and Mecca, attacks blamed on Israel, a civil war breaks out. An uneasy truce leaves the nation divided between an Islamic republic with its capital in Seattle, and the Christian Bible Belt in the old South. In this frightening future there are still Super Bowls and Academy Awards, but calls to Muslim prayer echo in the streets and terror is everywhere. Freedom is controlled by the state, paranoia rules, and rebels plot to regain free will.

©2006 Robert Ferrigno (P)2006 Simon & Schuster Inc. All rights reserved. Audioworks is an imprint of Simon & Schuster Audio Division, Simon & Schuster, Inc.

Critic reviews

"Fans of instapundit politics will love this thriller." (Publishers Weekly)
"Ferrigno deserves props for his imaginative portrayal of a futuristic America." (Booklist)

The Plot Line

The story itself is very scary to think about, but it certainly is something new. I thought the author did a decent job of keeping the reader engaged but I thought at some points the story seemed to move quite quickly. Plan to continue the series.

Abridged 🥺

i love this series and i wished it wasn't abridged. otherwise, it was great!

I read the series

I had read the series several years ago and was excited for the audio book but the performance was poor. The story jumps timelines and stories but the reader doesn't pause, change tone, or attempt voices for the different characters. During moments of intensity the reader just keeps going at the same pace and tone. This really flattens and white washes the story.

Odd flow

Interesting concept, but not enthralling execution. The book seems sort of helter skelter or even disassociated.

Skips whole paragraphs

I enjoy listening to the audio and following along with a hard copy of the book.
With that being said, I’ve read the book before and really enjoy the story itself. So this is a re-read. During this I’ve noticed Audible will skip whole paragraphs, often several at a time. My hard copy says published in 2006, same and the title description.
I gave the “Story” 5 stars, again because I really enjoy the story. However, I gave “Performance” and “Overall” 1 star for skipping parts. Feels like watching a movie based on a book when they can’t put in all the detail, and you know parts are being left out.
I’m new to this App so if this is normal I’m sorry for wasting time. However, if I had known this before I would not have wasted a credit and chose a different book.

An excellent thriller

<i>Prayers for the Assassin</i> was a thoroughly enjoyable listen, set in an imagined 'Islamic States of America' of the future. Reminiscent of Robert Harris' <i>Fatherland</i>, the book painted a fairly believable picture of what a post-apocalypic America under Islamic rule would be like - although I do have to point out that having the characters going to work on a Friday was a bit of a slip. I think my favorite part was the presence of the 'moderns' - Muslims who aren't too fanatical about it. With the increasing number of Muslims living in the West, I think the author's portrayal of Islam changing to suit the culture of its newest conquest is a fairly accurate one. Indeed, one only need read newspaper stories of gangs of young Saudi men (shabab) beating up the religious police (Muttawa) nowadays to see how any attempt to impose the stricter version of Islam on a Western nation would fare.

So, a ripping story combined with a thought-provoking image of an Islamic America - well worth a listen.

great listen

entertaining storyline great trilogy read once will listen again wish audible worked on my fire HD tablet

Couldn't Be Worse

Absolutely horrid. Don't waste your money. Cliched, one-dimensonal characters, predictable plot, vapid writing. I'm still kicking myself for wasting a credit on this garbage.

Poor

I didn't care for this book, at all. It seemed to me to be written by an immature teenager. It's a mixture of science fiction and the "Muslim scare".
The characters were not developed well, and the story plot was a little contrived.

6 hours of listening that I will never get back

Story and characters were weak and cliche. The flow was weird- maybe because it is abridged. The conversations between characters were cringe worthy.