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Legion

by William Peter Blatty

A murder mystery with supernatural-horror roots

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A murder mystery with supernatural-horror roots

A boy’s murder, staged as a mock crucifixion, sets Lieutenant Kinderman on a trail through a small circle of possible suspects, including a witness, medical professionals, and a silent patient in a psychiatric ward. As further killings repeat the same mutilations, the investigation begins to intersect with an older murder series attributed to the Gemini Killer. The sequel to *The Exorcist*, *Legion* brings criminal investigation and occult horror together, with its central mystery turning on the uncertain links among the suspects, the present crimes, and the past.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • For readers of occult and supernatural horror.
  • For readers interested in crime investigations entangled with psychological and medical settings.
  • For readers familiar with *The Exorcist* who want its sequel.

Themes

Murder and investigationOccult and supernatural horrorPsychiatric care and the human mindThe relationship between past and present crimes

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Book overview

From a master of the genre, William Peter Blatty, comes Legion, the harrowing sequel to The Exorcist and the inspiration to the movie The Exorcist III.

A young boy is found horribly murdered in a mock crucifixion. Is the murderer the elderly woman who witnessed the crime? A neurologist who can no longer bear the pain life inflicts on its victims? A psychiatrist with a macabre sense of humor and a guilty secret? A mysterious patient, locked in silent isolation in the psychiatric ward?

Lieutenant Kinderman follows a bewildering trail that links all these people, confronting a new enigma at every turn even as more murders surface, with each victim suffering the same dreadful mutilations. Kinderman must confront the creeping suspicion that there's a connection between these crimes and another series of murders that took place more than a decade ago―and supposedly ended with the death of the Gemini Killer.

Legion is a classic novel of breathtaking terror, an extraordinary journey into the uncharted depths of the human mind, and has been hailed as being "infinitely more suspenseful than The Exorcist." (Los Angeles Times)

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