Evil Harvest The True Story of Cult Murder in the American Heartland

On a peaceful August morning in 1985, grim-face FBI agents led a dawn raid on an eighty-acre farm outside Rulo, Nebraska, said to be occupied by a gorup of religious survivalists led by the charismatic Mike Ryan. What they found on the farm shocked even experience investigators. For months Ryan's Nebraska neighbours spoke in whispers of gunfire in the night, the disappearance of women and children, neo-Nazis and white supremacists. But little did the locals know what was happening to those Mike Ryan decided to punish for their "sins." In Evil Harvest, Rod Colvin re-creates a chilling story of torture, hate, and perversion, and how good, ordinary people could be pulled into a destructive, religious cult -- a cult that committed unthinkable acts in the name of God.

Rod Colvin is also the author of numerous magazine articles and of First Heroes: The POWS Left Behind in Vietnam and Prescription Drug Addiction: The Hidden Epidemic. He lives in the Midwest.