A Gathering of Saints

by Robert Lindsey

Paperback, 1990

Status

Available

Call number

364.1

Publication

Dell (1990), 432 pages

Description

From the author of The Falcon and The Snowman comes the true story of the 1985 Salt Lake City bombings and one man's master plan to take down the powerful Mormon empire in this thrilling and fast-paced true crime tale of murder and mayhem depicted in the Netflix documentary Murder Among the Mormons. When a brilliant forger produced documents that threatened the foundations of the Mormon Church, the religions elders, unaware of the falsities, were willing to pay a fortune to suppress the information they exposed. In order to prevent the truth of his forgery from coming out, the man behind them put into motion two bomb explosions and left two people dead in his path. A Gathering of Saints gives readers a look at the bombing that revealed corporate fraud, death squads, religious wars, and numerous other shocking revelations that jeopardized the future of the Mormon Church.… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member lilithcat
Quite a well-written "true crime" book, this tells the fascinating story of Mark Hoffmann, a document dealer who "found" letters and other documents dealing with the origins of the Mormom church. Because of their occult overtones, the hierarchy of the church sought to buy and suppress them. Then
Show More
pipe bombs explode, two people are killed and Hoffmann is badly injured.

A good book about an intriguing literary and religious hoax.
Show Less

Awards

Edgar Award (Nominee — Fact Crime — 1989)

Language

Original language

English

Physical description

432 p.; 6.7 inches

ISBN

0440205581 / 9780440205586
Page: 0.741 seconds