Months after lawyer Russell Westlake conducts a real estate closing for Carla Carson in Virginia Beach, she accuses him of fraud, colluding to have her "churched" and being complicit in the suicide of her son in Kentucky. She threatens that someone must die Research by Westlake to determine what lies behind the threat, compels him to the Kentucky farm of the Carson family. Two mysteries consume the next few years of Westlake's life. In her absence, the Carson Farm has become a thriving meth lab and distribution operation run by corrupt town officials and a local pastor. While in Kentucky, he learns about a nationwide group known as The Army of the Word-religious zealots cruelly testing the piety, sincerity and devotion of Christians to God. Who are these zealots? Could they have been the ones who posed the threat to Carla Carson? Could they have been involved in her son's death, and are they a threat to the lawyer or his family?
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