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Show PROPHET OF BLOOD The Untold Story of Ervil Le Baron and the Lambs of God Lamb of God, husband to fourteen wives and indifferent in-different father to his many offspirng. His devoted followers would willingly execute his enemies. Ervil's main rivals among the other sects are the Church of the Firstborn Fir-stborn of the Fulness of Time, headed by his brother Joel, and the Apostolic United Bretheren, headed by Rulon Allred. Ervil announces an-nounces to them that he is the Lord's Chosen One on this earth, and that they must acknowledge him as such and pay him homage, or suffer the consequences the wrath of God Himself. Rarely in the annals of American crime has there been a saga of such shocking excess as the story of the LeBaron clan. Rarely has spectacular spec-tacular jounalistic research combined with such high-powered dramatic prose to create a work you will find as gripping as "In Cold Blood," as nightmarish is "Helter Skelter,"as Jerrifying as "Ser-'pentine." Ben Bradtee.Jr.tDakVan Atta The horrifying, true-life true-life immediacy of books by Bugliosi, Thompson and Capote, with a docudramatic power uniquely its own "Prophet of Blood" is the incredible, actual story of a polygamous sect out of control, of brother against brother, of defiant followers silenced by slaughter, of a trial of violence and vengeance ranging from Salt Lake City through the Southwest to outposts in Mexico. Here, too, is a demonic parody of an Old Testament tale, as a tarnished prophet strives to take control of all of Mormondom. In the beginning, there was Ervil LeBaron, self-proclaimed self-proclaimed True Prophet of a renegade Mormon sect the Church of the l |