In the tradition of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood and Norman
Mailer's The Executioner's Song, the story of David Koresh, the FBI
and the tragedy at Waco - a book for everyone fascinated by true
crime, conspiracy theory, and American extremity. The assault by
federal agents on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, in
1993, in which 86 people died, has become a founding myth of the
extreme wing of American conservatism, invoked by militiamen, gun
rights advocates and the alt-right. The leader of the evangelical
sect at Waco, an extreme form of Seventh-Day Adventism, was Vernon
Howell, a charismatic chancer and former victim of sexual abuse who
called himself David Koresh. He himself became a sexual predator on
a large scale, exploiting many of the women in his compound. He was
also a compelling preacher and interpreter of the Bible, notably
the Book of Revelation, and was obsessed with the coming of the
Apocalypse. The FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
duly obliged, with tragic results. Koresh is Stephan Talty's
extraordinary, meticulous narration of this event, in all its
squalor, strangeness and delirium. Talty doesn't downplay the
madness of the cult, but he is humanely sympathetic to Koresh and
his followers and is also highly critical of the ATF and FBI, who
were spoiling for a violent showdown, and explains why the siege
has become so important to those who loathe the state.
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