A secretive millennial cult from California purchases a ranch on the outskirts of the Montana badlands---the eerily silent, dry, and windy dead zone---and the Toussaint townsfolk are none too pleased.
The cult members keep to themselves, but the suspicious circumstances under which theyve arrived have Gabriel Du Pr questioning their motives and seeking answers. He soon learns from a friend in the FBI that seven of the cults recently defected members were killed---each shot to death---but no arrests have been made. Then another shooting occurs at the perimeter of the ranch, and Du Pr finds himself blindly searching for a killer, an explanation for the murders, and the identity of the cults elusive leader.
With Badlands, his tenth novel in this acclaimed series, Peter Bowen has written his most timely and chilling novel to date: a story of faceless terror told in lyrical prose and steeped in the Mtis tradition of storytelling.
The cult members keep to themselves, but the suspicious circumstances under which theyve arrived have Gabriel Du Pr questioning their motives and seeking answers. He soon learns from a friend in the FBI that seven of the cults recently defected members were killed---each shot to death---but no arrests have been made. Then another shooting occurs at the perimeter of the ranch, and Du Pr finds himself blindly searching for a killer, an explanation for the murders, and the identity of the cults elusive leader.
With Badlands, his tenth novel in this acclaimed series, Peter Bowen has written his most timely and chilling novel to date: a story of faceless terror told in lyrical prose and steeped in the Mtis tradition of storytelling.
