God is a bullet / Boston Teran.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Teran, Boston.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Satanism--Fiction.

Satanism.

Ex-cultists.

Blood accusation.

Blood accusation--Fiction.

Ex-cultists--Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Adventure fiction.

Physical Description:

301 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1999.

Summary:

The feral wasteland of the southern California desert and the badlands of Mexico: these are the settings for Boston Teran's debut novel - a dark, wrenching thriller about personal conviction, retribution, and survival. Fall 1970. In a remote playa a twelve-year-old boy stumbles upon a hideous scene in a dust-strewn trailer: the savage murder of a woman that will remain unsolved for twenty-five years. Christmas week, 1995. A fourteen-year-old girl is kidnapped by a bloodthirsty satanic cult that calls itself the Left-Handed Path. The leader, Cyrus, considers murder the "ultimate freedom, ultimate joy . . . ultimate service." His "tribe" is a group of drug-fueled young psychopaths honing their skills under the tutelage of a master. Bob Hightower, the girl's father, is a cop, suddenly more desperate than he ever imagined possible. There are no clues to his daughter's whereabouts, only a scene of unfathomable carnage - the mutilated corpses of her mother and stepfather - left behind by the kidnappers. His only hope is a fierce ex-cult member named Case Hardin, a woman tempered to an extraordinary strength by what she's endured, who's just getting off the junkie trail in a halfway house in Hollywood. Bob has absolutely no reason, and every need, to trust her. Their quest - he for his child, she to exorcise her demons - becomes a primal hunt-and-chase through a savage subculture of drugs and ritualistic violence ("the black land of plenty") that takes them inexorably toward the limits of physical and psychological torment and trauma.

ISBN:

0375401881

OCLC:

39763411