The Oracle's Daughter

<p>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.<br><br>In <i>The Oracle's Daughter</i>, 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.<br><br>With a propulsive, deeply researched narrative, <i>The Oracle's Daughter </i>illuminates the strange world of religious cults-and how more vulnerable we are to extremism than we might like to think.</p>