NATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the author of Into the Wild and Into Thin Air, this extraordinary work of investigative journalism takes readers inside America's isolated Mormon Fundamentalist communities.
"Fantastic. . . . Right up there with In Cold Blood and The Executioner's Song." --San Francisco Chronicle
Defying both civil authorities and the Mormon establishment in Salt Lake City, the renegade leaders of these Taliban-like theocracies are zealots who answer only to God; some 40,000 people still practice polygamy in these communities.
At the core of Krakauer's book are brothers Ron and Dan Lafferty, who insist they received a commandment from God to kill a blameless woman and her baby girl. Beginning with a meticulously researched account of this appalling double murder, Krakauer constructs a multi-layered, bone-chilling narrative of messianic delusion, polygamy, savage violence, and unyielding faith. Along the way he uncovers a shadowy offshoot of America's fastest growing religion, and raises provocative questions about the nature of religious belief.
Product details
- Paperback | 432 pages
- 132 x 203 x 23mm | 318g
- 08 Jun 2004
- Random House USA Inc
- Random House Inc
- New York, United States
- English
- Reprint
- 3 MAPS
- 1400032806
- 9781400032808
- 139,826
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