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A Publishers Weekly Summer Reads Selection "The Colony is one of the most gripping and disturbing true stories I've ever come across." --Douglas Preston An investigation into the November, 2019 killings of nine women and children in Northern Mexico--an event that drew international attention--The Colony examines the strange, little-understood world of a polygamist Mormon outpost. On the morning of November 4, 2019, an unassuming caravan of women and children was ambushed by masked gunmen on a desolate stretch of road in northern Mexico controlled by the Sinaloa drug cartel. Firing semi-automatic weapons, the attackers killed nine people and gravely injured five more. The victims were members of the LeBaron and La Mora communities--fundamentalist Mormons whose forebears broke from the LDS Church and settled in Mexico when their religion outlawed polygamy in the late nineteenth century. The massacre produced international headlines for weeks, and prompted President Donald Trump to threaten to send in the US Army. In The Colony, bestselling investigative journalist Sally Denton picks up where the initial, incomplete reporting on the attacks ended, and delves into the complex story of

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Author

Sally Denton

Publisher

Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of WW Norton et Co

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9781631498084

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Sociology, Social_sciences