Hardcover: 320 pages
Publisher: Counterpoint (October 20, 2009)
ISBN-10: 1582435251
ISBN-13: 978-1582435251

Enigmatic and reclusive author, Boston Teran, has written an epic in styling and scope that was recently purchased by Universal Pictures for the second highest price ever paid for a manuscript. Todd Field, whose recent writing efforts were Little Children and In the Bedroom, has been hired to adapt the novel for film.

Mexico, 1910. At the Mexican-American border, the landscape pulses with the force of the upcoming revolution, an atmosphere rich in opportunity for a criminal such as Rawbone. His fortune arrives across the haze of the Sierra Blanca in the form of a truck loaded with weapons, an easy sell to those financing a bloodletting.

But Rawbone’s plan spins against him, and he soon finds himself in the hands of the Bureau of Investigation. He is offered a chance for immunity, but only if he agrees to proceed with his scheme to deliver the truck and its goods to the Mexican oil fields-all the while being under the command of agent John Lourdes.

Unbeknownst to Rawbone, the agent happens to be the son he abandoned decades earlier, a truth only the agent knows. As they work to expose the criminal network at the core of the revolution, it is clear their journey into the tarred desert is a push toward a certain ruin, and the agent’s secret may determine their fates. Set against a backdrop of intrigue and corruption, THE CREED OF VIOLENCE is a saga about the scars of abandonment, the greed of war, and America’s history of foreign intervention for the sake of oil.

In this thriller, the two main characters are the father, Rawbone, and his son. Rawbone was raised in a brothel. He was not yet 10 when he killed his first man. His son considered him a common assassin, and hated him for leaving both him and his mother.

In his latest escapade Rawbone has killed all of the men who were driving a large truck full of guns and ammunition. Rawbone had planned on selling the load to the highest bidder. The danger of smuggling guns, drugs, and people could very easily compared to today’s Mexico.

When he is caught stealing the guns and ammo, his lawyer arranges a deal with the Bureau of Investigations and agent, John Lourdes. In exchange for immunity, he sets out to help capture the cold-blooded felons.

One of the several twists in this story is that the father does not know that the younger man is his son until close to the end of the book. Definitely a page-turner!

About the Author..

No one knows the identity of Boston Teran. Some say that he is a well-known writer using a pseudonym. Others say Boston Teran is the name used by a small group of writers working together to create one identity. Either way, God Is a Bullet, which has been described as “Raymond Chandler on speed,” is currently being adapted for film by writer/producer Ehren Kruger (Reindeer Games, Blood and Chocolate, The Ring). The Creed of Violence is his sixth book.

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