Table of Contents
Prologue: This Could Be the Day That I Die vii
Book I A Sense of Community
1 A Galaxy Far Away 3
2 The Man and the Music 15
3 Coming to the Mountain 23
4 Edging Toward Belief 41
5 Slipping Through the Fence 59
6 The Withering Experience 71
7 Temptations 89
8 On Rape, Abuse, and Guns 103
Book II Prelude to a Holocaust
9 Visions and Omens 129
10 Showtime 151
11 Aftershock 175
12 No Surrender, No Quarter 189
13 Ranch Apocalypse 211
Book III Life as a Survivor
14 "Are You Comin' to Kill Me?" 233
15 Half-Truths and Outright Lies 255
16 Ignorant Questions 265
17 Afterlife 285
18 Climbing the Mountain 301
19 Back to the Future 323
20 The Double Helix 335
Epilogue 343
Special Thanks and Acknowledgments 353
Appendix: The Mount Carmel Community: The Living and the Dead 357
Index 363