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Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith

• By (author): Jon Krakauer
• Published by: Pan Books
• Publication date: 06/Aug/2004
• Format: Paperback - 400 pages
• Product dimensions (mm): 200 x 130
• ISBN-10: 0330419129
• ISBN-13: 9780330419123
• Categories:
      > True Crime
      > Religion
  

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Brothers Ron and Dan Lafferty insist they were commanded to kill by God. Krakauer's investigation is a meticulously researched narrative of polygamy, savage violence and unyielding faith: a work of non-fiction that illuminates an otherwise confounding realm of human behaviour.

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Krakauer shifts his focus from extremes of physical adventure to extremes of religious belief in this true story of an appalling double murder committed by two ...

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