This book tells the story of religious extremism and its consequences. It is a biography and true crime story that explores the history, practices, and conflicts within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. The pages of this book are filled with murder, religious intolerance, persecution, and conflict in the United States during the 20th century. The author, Jon Krakauer, provides a comprehensive and engaging account of the events and people involved in the violent faith. This hardcover book published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group in 2003 has 400 pages and weighs 24.9 Oz. Its dimensions are 9.6in x 6.6in x 1.2in. The book is written in English and falls under the genre of biography and autobiography, true crime, religion, and history. Its topics are murder/general, religious intolerance, persecution, and conflict, fundamentalism, and Christianity/Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormon).