Legion - (Exorcist) by William Peter Blatty (Paperback)

About the Book

The murder of a small boy, a deaf-mute, in a mock crucifixion puts detective William Kinderman on the trail of a series of brutal murders leading him to a deadly confrontation with the ultimate evil.

Book Synopsis

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)

Review Quotes

"Infinitely more suspenseful than The Exorcist. I devoured Legion in one terrified gulp. It even manages to outspook The Exorcist."
--Los Angeles Times

"Heartbeat-skipping horror. Read Legion only on a sunny day."
--Cosmopolitan

"Mesmerizing and horrifying at the same time."
--USA Today

"Tooth-grinding suspense and several terrific scares."
--The Seattle Times

"Ten times better than The Exorcist...the suspense is breathtaking, and the ideas dark, deadly, and fascinating."
--The Cleveland Plain Dealer

"Riveting. Once again you'll be turning on all the lights, double-checking the locks and hearing strange sounds in the night."
--Cincinnati Enquirer

"A real hair-raiser."
--Newsday

"Blatty has returned to repossess us."
--New York Daily News

About the Author

William Peter Blatty (1928-2017) was the bestselling author of The Exorcist, which he turned into an Academy Award-winning screenplay. The son of immigrant parents, he was a comic novelist before embarking on a four-decade career as a successful Hollywood writer. Blatty died on January 12, 2017, in Bethesda, Maryland.