'Terrifying, gripping, all true. I couldn't put it down' Stephen King 'Excellent. told with rare sensitivity. Hill is an extremely skilled writer, and his conscientious, measured reporting is a gift. The propulsive feel of a novel.' New York Times 'Troubling, uplifting, heartbreaking. a masterwork.' Ron Suskind, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Life, Animated On a cool autumn night in 1999, twenty-six-year-old Sarah Green crept out of her house and ran for her life.

She was escaping not just the Aggressive Christianity Missions Training Corps, a paramilitary religious cult operating out of the New Mexico desert, but also the cruelty of the cult's leader-her mother, Deborah. In The Oracle's Daughter , Harrison Hill traces the fascinating beginnings and violent end of ACMTC, from its early days as an outgrowth of the hippie movement, through the conspiracy-theorist 1990s and into the present day. It follows Deborah, the group's founder and self-proclaimed oracle; Maura, one of its first members; and Sarah, Deborah's daughter, among the cult's primary victims. With a propulsive, deeply researched narrative, The Oracle's Daughter illuminates the strange world of religious cults-and how more vulnerable we are to extremism than we might like to think.