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Legion
Legion
Author: William Peter Blatty
A young boy, a deaf-mute, is found horribly murdered in a mock crucifixion. The kindly, aging detective assigned to the case sees it not only as a crime--one that calls for his skill and intuition as an investigator--but as a part of a larger and more baffling mystery: whether or not a good god can exist if He tolerates such monstrous evil. Is t...  more »
ISBN: 170055
Publication Date: 1983
Pages: 248
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Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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blackrose74023 avatar reviewed Legion on + 56 more book reviews
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this book was freeky.
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emeraldfire avatar reviewed Legion on
When a young boy is found brutally murdered in a mock crucifixion, there are four totally unlikely suspects. Was it the elderly woman who witnessed the crime? A neurologist who can no longer bear the pain life inflicts on his patients? A psychiatrist with a macabre sense of humor and a guilty secret, or a mysterious mental patient, locked in silent isolation?

Detective Kinderman follows a bewildering trail in a case that grows more mysterious with each subsequent murder. Why are two murder victims priests? Why does each victim suffer the same dreadful mutilations? Is there some connection with a series of equally gruesome murders which took place a dozen years earlier and supposedly ended with the death of the killer?

I have to say that I didn't really enjoy this book as much as I thought I would. I had seen the sequel to The Exorcist the movie version, which this book is based on. The second movie was absolutely terrible, in my opinion, the third movie was alright for a first time watcher, but was not really able to hold up to a second watching.. That is sort of the same reaction that I had at the end of Legion, I was certainly glad that I read it, but I don't think that I will read it again. I give this book a B!
Snowball7470 avatar reviewed Legion on + 129 more book reviews
by the author of The Exorcist, Legion is the terrifying sequel to The Exorcist -- the alltime bestselling novel of demonic possession.
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Super awesome scary book. So creepy.
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Very good book.


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