God Is a Bullet

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  • Author : Boston Teran
  • Binding : Mass Market Paperback
  • EAN : 9780345439888
  • Edition : Reprint
  • ISBN : 0345439880
  • Label : Ballantine Books
  • Languages : Original Language: English, Published: English
  • Manufacturer : Ballantine Books
  • Number Of Items : 1
  • Number Of Pages : 384
  • Package Dimensions : 1.00 inches (Height) x 6.80 inches (Length) x 0.40 pounds (Weight) x 4.10 inches (Width)
  • Product Group : Book
  • Publication Date : 2002-04
  • Publisher : Ballantine Books
  • SKU : LH03334
  • Studio : Ballantine Books

Opening with the brutal murder of a woman in 1970 Boston, Teran's God Is A Bullet then jumps forward 25 years to another savage killing. Local cop Bob Hightower discovers his ex-wife and her new husband ritually massacred and his daughter abducted. Setting out to find her, Hightower's only clue is a card pinned to the dead man's chest--"the Judgement...the twentieth enigma of the Tarot"--and his only help an ex-junkie and ex-cult member, Case Hardin, who recognises the trademarks of the sinister Left-Handed Path and its leader Cyrus. Knowing from personal experience the likely fate of Hightower's daughter, she joins Hightower in a desperate search for the missing girl, and the slow uncovering of the connection between the two murders reveals a web of deceit and corruption that extends deep into the heart of small-town America.Teran's book manages to combine a sure sense of the dynamics of the thriller genre with a convincing examination of the darker legacies of the sixties. Charles Manson and the Tate-LaBianca murders are obvious reference points for the Left-Handed Path and its conjunction of satanic obsession, drugs, and philosophies of amorality, and Cyrus is a frightening articulation of the dark, negative energies of that decade's fallout: It was there, in that trailer...that [Cyrus] found the true architect of the modern world...Where he found the only son of man--and he wasn't some jerk-off named Jesus. He was the architect who allowed for the zero-sum game with all its depravities. Who found beauty in blood, a christening through ultimate chaos. Who understood it was better to reign in some perilous extreme than to serve a life sentence of propriety out of fear.A vertigo-inducing descent into the diseased underbelly of American culture, Boston Teran's first novel is a powerful, accomplished thriller. The author's evocation of a subculture of evil and depravity is disturbingly plausible in its exploration of cult activity, and of the mindsets of those for whom ethics and conventional morality are just a sham--and normal people just "sheep" to be slaughtered. --Burhan Tufail

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