false<![CDATA[Legion]]>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1228500832m/219362.jpg2193627Few works of fiction have ever caught the imagination of so vast a public as did The Exorcist.
Now William Peter Blatty has written a novel that transcends The Exorcist in suspense, searing power and intensity. A young boy, a deaf-mute, is found horribly murdered in a mock crucifixion. The kindly, aging detective assigned to the case sees it not only as a crime -- one that calls for all his skill and intuition as an investigator -- but as part of a larger and more baffling mystery; whether or not a good god can exist if He tolerates such monstrous evil. 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?
As Lieutentant Kinderman follows a bewildering trail that links all these people, he confronts a new enigma at every turn. 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 a killer?21239381983Legiontotal:219|5:52|4:73|3:68|2:18|1:8|2198003122541falsefalseThu Dec 04 21:29:24 -0800 2008Thu Dec 04 21:33:12 -0800 2008
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41falsefalseWed Apr 09 06:33:54 -0700 2008Mon Apr 07 07:19:44 -0700 2008Mon Apr 07 21:42:50 -0700 2008 Blatty totally nails the personality of Kinderman, the policeman, here. He was already an awesome and memorable character in the Exorcist, but in Legion he is even more so. Blatty really captures a certain amount of maturity in the chara...more...]]>
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30falsefalseSun May 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009Thu Apr 09 20:37:34 -0700 2009Sun May 17 10:05:53 -0700 2009 In later years, I know I saw the movie based on this book, and so I knew that it was a sort of sequel to Exorcist. I remembe...more...]]>
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The Exorcist it is completely different in tone. There are scary bits but there are also surprising moments of humor. The book's triumph is its completely believable examination of the nature of evil, of theology an...more...]]>
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