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Synopsis
"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.
God Is a Bullet: content & age rating
Intended for adult readers (18+).
Extremely violent thriller involving satanic cult murders, kidnapping of a teenage girl, graphic crime scenes with mutilated corpses, and drug-fueled ritualistic violence. Features strong language and traumatic content throughout.
What to know going in
This book has graphic violence, moderate sexual content, and strong language. Content notes include child harm, torture, graphic violence, gore, and substance abuse (see the full list above).
Who'll love this
Adult readers drawn to dark crime thrillers will find this a relentless hunt through California's criminal underground.