Synopses & Reviews
Christmas, 1995. A 14-year-old girl is kidnapped by a bloodthirsty Satanic cult. Bob Hightower, the girl's father and a small-town cop, embarks on a desperate mission to find her, but his only hope lies with Case Hardin, an ex-cult member and ex-junkie living in a halfway house in Hollywood.
Review
"A crime novel mining the violent, drug-crazed creepiness of the Manson family and its ilk, with big screen aspirations, God Is a Bullet succeeds as a skin-crawling read. It also contains depravities that may inspire one to take more baths than usual. The writing has its qualities, but Mr. Teran's tendency is towards style over substance. The poetry of his style suggests a deeper understanding of his themes and characters than is ever manifested. This failure to get beyond a vivid descriptiveness of grotesque surfaces, be they of landscape, character, or situation leaves the story marooned in the shallows. The evil Cyrus is Manson squared. His mindless sycophants are straight out of Mad Max. The more believable 'good guys,' Bob Hightower and Case Hardin, a land of Mad Maxine, seem way out of their depth, considering what they are up against. The climactic battle scene is pure, comic-book spectacle." Reviewed by Andrew Witmer, Virginia Quarterly Review (Copyright 2006 Virginia Quarterly Review)
Synopsis
An ex-member of a bloodthirsty cult must pair up with a police officer to take down the group's murderous leader in this dark, wrenching thriller about personal conviction, retribution, and survival. Soon to be a major motion picture starring Jamie Foxx, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Maika Monroe, and January Jones
"In a word: Wow. God Is a Bullet is a kick-ass, in-your-face tour de force from start to finish."--Harlan Coben, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Match
Case Hardin has stared into the face of evil and lived. Now Case learns that the satanic cult that turned her from a lost child into a broken, drug-addicted shell of a woman has taken down more victims, butchering a man and a woman in their suburban home and abducting a young girl.
Fueled by rage and the need to redeem her life, Case teams up with the missing girl's father--a straight-arrow desk cop named Bob Hightower--to track the girl down. With Case as his mentor, Hightower will begin a hunt through the satanic underground few have encountered and even fewer have survived, to pry his child from the hands of a madman.
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