Under the Banner of Heaven

Jon Krakauer examines the 1984 double murder of a woman and her infant daughter, committed by two fundamentalist Mormon brothers who claimed to be acting on divine instruction. Interweaving the crime with a sweeping history of the LDS Church and its radical splinter groups, the book probes the capacity of absolute faith to justify atrocity.

ISBN 9781400032808 · Anchor Books · 2003