Something had gone wrong between man and his creator, and the evidence was here on this boathouse dock. He stared at the sun coming up behind the Capitol, streaking the Potomac with orange light, and then down at the outrage, the horror at his feet. ISBN: 9780765327130 1 He thought of death in its infinite groanings, of Aztecs ripping out living hearts and of cancer and three-year-olds buried alive and he wondered whether God was alien and cruel, but then remembered Beethoven and the dappling of things and “Hurrah for Karamazov” and kindness. Legion By William Peter Blatty Tor Books Copyright © 2011 William Peter Blatty All right reserved. The answers are revealed in a climax so stunning that it could only have been written by the author of The Exorcist -William Peter Blatty.

But more than this, it is an extraordinary journey into the uncharted depths of the human mind and the most agonizing questions of the human condition. Legion is a novel of breathtaking energy and suspense.

Why does each victim suffer the same dreadful mutilations? Why are two of the victims priests? Is there a connection between these crimes and another series of murders that took place twelve years ago-and supposedly ended with the death of the killer?

Lieutenant Kinderman follows a bewildering trail that links all these people, confronting a new enigma at every turn even as more murders surface. Is the murderer the elderly woman who witnessed the crime? A neurologist who can no longer bear the pain life inflicts on its victims? A psychiatrist with a macabre sense of humor and a guilty secret? A mysterious mental patient, locked in silent isolation? From the author of The Exorcist - Legion, a classic tale of horror, is back in print!Ī young boy is found horribly murdered in a mock crucifixion.

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