By Malachy G. Carroll

Ego te absolvo a peccatis tuis in nomine Patris et Filii et Spiritus Sancti.… The words were so fervently spoken that they seemed to fling a burning cross on the air.

The Stranger, Malachy G. Carroll’s first effort as a novelist, follows a mysterious man—“The Stranger”—living in the seclusion of a remote Irish village. While a terrible secret from deep in his past sequesters the Stranger in anonymity, he impresses his neighbors with his quiet strength and generous charity. When the rumors about his past begin to swirl through the village, however, he will have to choose between revealing his true identity or forfeiting the good faith of his new friends. 

Written with vim, vigor, and much good humor, The Stranger is a moving story with an exhilarating finish, an accomplishment which puts Carroll on equal fotting as such talented Catholic novelists like Lloyd C. Douglas and Louis de Wohl.

Malachy G. Carroll (1918–2012) wrote over half a dozen books, including novels about and biographies of Saints Thomas Aquinas, Emilie de Vialar, and Padre Pio. Imaginative and moving, his writings today sadly remain little known.

Paperback: 194pp.

ISBN: 978-1949899573