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...
