Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer

Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer tells the story of two fundamentalist Mormon brothers who took their faith to the ultimate extreme. It explores the horrific murder of the wife and child of Ron and Dan Lafferty’s younger brother as well as the frightening aspect of Mormon fundamentalism.

“Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air was a narrative tour de force chronicling the disastrous 1996 Everest expeditions, and should be considered a classic of modern journalism. Measured against this awesome standard, Under the Banner of Heaven is a failure. It is a lucid and sometimes compulsively readable failure, but it lacks the narrative drive and cohesive perspective of Into Thin Air...”

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