Features an all-new chapter for this editionNew York Times bestselling author Stephen Singular provides an inside look at the Mormon polygamist sect that made headlines in 2008 for coercing young girls into marriage, and the story of their ruthless leader, Warren Jeffs.As the self-proclaimed prophet of the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints, Warren Jeffs held sway over thousands of followers for nearly a decade. His rule was utterly tyrannical. In addition to coercing young girls into marriages with older men, Jeffs reputedly took scores of wives, many of whom were his father’s widows. But in 2007, after landing on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted List, Jeffs’s reign was forcefully ended. He would be imprisoned for committing rape as an accomplice.In When Men Become Gods, Edgar Award–nominee Stephen Singular traces Jeffs’s rise to power and the concerted effort that led to his downfall. Newly updated, it describes the controversial 2008 raid on Jeffs’s Texas compound and the fate of the 439...

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