Michael's Publications
Take a Priest Like You
Declared at birth to be the ‘next priest in the family,’ Barrington’s life followed a predetermined path. His memoir traces the struggle to find his true self. In Take a Priest Like You, he provides a brutally honest and gripping portrayal of his life as missionary priest searching for meaning. Stood up to be shot by a group of drunken soldiers, a whiskey drinking, “John Wayne” type of priest shows real caring. A racist, alcoholic pastor nurses him through an almost fatal bout of malaria. Devastated by the death of a twelve-year-old schoolgirl, he then has to bury her. A Muslim friend offers him his youngest wife for the night if only he will stay in his house.
Take a Priest Like You, is a true to life ‘survivor’ tale, replete with adrenaline pumping adventures, daunting challenges and one priest’s profound religious struggle to find his true self. Combined with warm humor and moving insights it offers a rare glimpse into one man’s spiritual experiences. Moved by the Spirit he spends a year as a hermit before making a momentous decision, and disinherited by his family, to leave behind the only adult life he had known. Happily married, he finds his mission in helping marginalized people worldwide.
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No Room for Heroes
A novel of the French Resistance 1944
No Room for Heroes, a historical novel using the French Resistance and World War II as background, was published in August. It follows the lives of twenty-eight-year-old identical twins from the Vercors Plateau, as they try to outwit first the Italians who occupied the region, then the Germans. Complications arise as one becomes romantically involved with a radio and explosives expert flown in from England, and the other with the local catholic priest who doubles as a resistance fighter. After serious acts of sabotage, destruction of railways and weapons depots, there follows dramatic captures and escapes together with harsh retaliation. The climax of the book describes the largest direct confrontation during the war between resistance groups and the German army, the tragic Battle of the Vercors.
