Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer [FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING] 2003 • Doubleday

Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer  FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING [2004] DOUBLEDAY 1st trade printing w/ raised and embossed title fonts.   Hardcover with dust jacket in beautiful condition.    Beautiful dust jacket w. just one tiny spot of wrinkling at top of spine; now housed in a new HQ brodart jacket protector.

 Book itself is excellent. Minor bumping to boards.  Reads like new.  Gorgeous.  A multilayered, bone-chilling narrative of messianic delusion, savage violence, polygamy, and unyielding faith. This is vintage Krakauer, an utterly compelling work of nonfiction that illuminates an otherwise confounding realm of human behavior. At the core of this book, is an appalling double murder committed by two Mormon Fundamentalist brothers, Ron and Dan Lafferty, who insist they received a revelation from God commanding them to kill their blameless victims. Beginning with a meticulously researched account of this "divinely inspired" crime, Krakauer