Thriller
by Brian Evenson
In this chilling, psychological thriller, Brian Evenson delivers with cold precision the tale of a provost from the Corporation of the Blood of the Lamb and his affection - an unholy predilection - for children. The provost's sickness emerges deliberately, and the reader is drawn into the disturbing inner workings of a violent pedophile. The provost's perverse actions speak for themselves. In this cautionary tale, Evenson exposes the rigid and insular religious community that protects one of its own - an upstanding cleric, a man of God - at the expense of the victims; children from the provos
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