Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith Audiobook (Free)

This extraordinary work of investigative journalism takes readers inside America’s isolated Mormon Fundamentalist communities, where some 40,000 people still practice polygamy. Defying both civil authorities and the Mormon establishment in Salt Lake City, the renegade market leaders of the Taliban-like theocracies are zealots who answer and then God.

At the primary of Krakauer’s publication are brothers Ron and Dan Lafferty, who demand they received a commandment from God to kill a blameless female and her baby woman. You start with a meticulously explored account of this appalling dual murder, Krakauer constructs a multi-layered, bone-chilling narrative of messianic delusion, polygamy, savage assault, and unyielding beliefs. On the way he uncovers a shadowy offshoot of America’s fastest developing religion, and raises provocative queries about the type of religious belief.