Obedeceré a Dios

On July 24, 1984, Allen Lafferty, a practicing Mormon, came across a terrible scene: his wife and fifteen-month-old daughter had been brutally murdered. Allen had no doubts about the identity of the culprits: his brothers, Ron and Dan Lafferty, two fanatics convinced that his act was divinely mandated. This true crime classic, written by one of the undisputed masters of narrative non-fiction and which has just been adapted for television, places us in a time and characters more typical of the Middle Ages than of the very heart of the United States. In light of the terrible history of the fanatical Lafferty brothers and the account of the violent past of the Mormon movement, Krakauer offers a brilliant and fascinating account of the theocracies of deep America in which polygamy, messianism and savage violence are rampant. their wide. If the stories that Krakauer told in Altitude Sickness or Into the Wild were examples of lives taken to the most extreme limits of physical adventure, this book is also a journey towards a very extreme interpretation of religious faith, as well as a fundamental document about one of the most mysterious aspects of human nature, the religious factor and its interpretation.