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God is a bullet

Title
God is a bullet / Boston Teran.
Author
Teran, Boston.
Publication
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1999.

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301 pages; 25 cm
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."--BOOK JACKET. "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."--BOOK JACKET.
  • "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."--BOOK JACKET.
  • "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."--BOOK JACKET. "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."--BOOK JACKET.
Subject
  • Satanism > Fiction
  • Blood accusation > Fiction
  • Ex-cultists > Fiction
Genre/Form
Adventure fiction.
ISBN
0375401881
LCCN
98041729
OCLC
  • 39763411
  • ocm39763411
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries