Near Death

Sing Sing Penitentiary 1962.

Prison Chaplain and Korean War veteran, John Henry Beauregard gives the last rites to Joseph Hickey, a psychopath about to be executed for the murder of a young family in Upstate New York.

After watching Hickey die, John Henry quits his job to start a new life in the Appalachian Mountains.

Hickey’s death should have been the end of the nightmare, but then another family is murdered in identical circumstances, and John Henry is called back to New York to give the last rites to the killer.

The killings continue, drawing John Henry into a supernatural mystery with devastating consequences.