This extraordinary work of investigative journalism takes readers inside America\'s isolated Mormon Fundamentalist communities, where some 40,000 people still practice polygamy.
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.
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.
This extraordinary work of investigative journalism takes readers inside America\'s isolated Mormon Fundamentalist communities, where some 40,000 people still practice polygamy