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The Killing Kind by John Connolly

The Killing Kind

by John Connolly
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  • Aug 1, 2002, 384 pages
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  • Mar 2003, 448 pages
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It is known that Faulkner regarded Sandford as a particular inspiration: Sandford had shown that it was possible to build an independent religious community using donations and the sale of the assets of true believers. It is therefore both ironic and strangely apt that Faulkner's attempt at establishing his own religious utopia, close to the small town of Eagle Lake, should have ended in bitterness and acrimony, near starvation and despair, and finally the disappearance of twenty people, among them Faulkner himself.

Copyright © 2001 by John Connolly

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