Prophet's Prey: My Seven-Year Investigation into Warren Jeffs and the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints

Prophet's Prey: My Seven-Year Investigation into Warren Jeffs and the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints

Prophet's Prey: My Seven-Year Investigation into Warren Jeffs and the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints

Prophet's Prey: My Seven-Year Investigation into Warren Jeffs and the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints

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Overview

"A remarkable man on many levels, Sam Brower is the real deal. Readers are apt to find his firsthand account of bringing Warren Jeffs to justice both extremely disturbing and absolutely riveting."-Jon Krakauer, from the foreword

From the private investigator who cracked open the case that led to the arrest of Warren Jeffs, the maniacal prophet of the polygamous Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints (FLDS), comes the page-turning, horrifying story of how a rogue sect used sex, money, and power disguised under a façade of religion to further criminal activities and a madman's vision.

Despite considerable press coverage and a lengthy trial, the full story has remained largely untold. Only one man can reveal the whole, astounding truth: Sam Brower, the private investigator who devoted years of his life to breaking open the secret practices of the FLDS and bringing Warren Jeffs and his inner circle to justice. In Prophet's Prey, Brower implicates Jeffs in his own words, bringing to light the contents of Jeffs's personal priesthood journal, discovered in a hidden underground vault, and revealing to readers the shocking inside world of FLDS members, whose trust he earned and who showed him the staggering truth of their lives.

Prophet's Prey offers the gripping, behind-the-scenes account of a bizarre world from the only man who knows the full story.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781608192755
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Publication date: 08/30/2011
Pages: 336
Product dimensions: 6.40(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

About The Author
Raised in the Mormon Church (mainstream LDS), private detective Sam Brower is the investigator who pushed forward the long and hard legal battles against the radical FLDS and Warren Jeffs. He lives in Cedar City, Utah.

Table of Contents

Preface Jon Krakauer vii

Chapter 1 Prey 1

Chapter 2 Ross 13

Chapter 3 "Uncle Warren?" 21

Chapter 4 UEP v. Holm 28

Chapter 5 Big Willie 34

Chapter 6 P.I. 40

Chapter 7 The Father 45

Chapter 8 Lost Boys 55

Chapter 9 Headmaster 61

Chapter 10 Coup 68

Chapter 11 Diversity 75

Chapter 12 Blood Atonement 80

Chapter 13 Death in the Family 87

Chapter 14 Stepmothers and Wives 95

Chapter 15 Predator 102

Chapter 16 The Record 110

Chapter 17 Whirlwind 118

Chapter 18 Twenty-one Men 128

Chapter 19 There to Stay 137

Chapter 20 On the Run 144

Chapter 21 Mancos 152

Chapter 22 Janetta 159

Chapter 23 Wicked 168

Chapter 24 Candi 176

Chapter 25 Twelve Years Old 185

Chapter 26 Grand Jury 190

Chapter 27 On the Road 197

Chapter 28 The Turf War 208

Chapter 29 Arrest 218

Chapter 30 Guilty 227

Chapter 31 Elissa 236

Chapter 32 Sarah 243

Chapter 33 Standoff 249

Chapter 34 Search 255

Chapter 35 Seizure 262

Chapter 36 Backfire 269

Chapter 37 Sinking Ship 276

Chapter 38 Stalker 285

Chapter 39 Town without Pity 294

Chapter 40 The Telephone 299

Afterword 312

Acknowledgments 318

Index 320

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