Quick Review: A concept that book lovers will appreciate, wrapped around an utterly mesmerising thriller. He and his wife legally changed their names to Tony and Susan Alamo after they married in Las Vegas in 1966.Read this book for: literary thriller, longer read, books about books, story within a story, interesting concept, gripping thriller He arrived in Los Angeles in the 1960s claiming he was a music promoter. 20, 1934, to a Jewish family in Joplin, Mo. Alamo was born Bernie Lazar Hoffman on Sept.
Alamo returned his wife’s remains seven years later after being threatened with jail. The authorities found Susan Alamo’s crypt smashed open and her coffin gone.
Alamo ordered his followers to pack up before federal marshals seized the property to satisfy a court judgment. The body was eventually placed in a concrete crypt. Her body had been kept in a room at the northwest Arkansas compound, and his followers kept a vigil, praying for months for a resurrection. Alamo had grown unhinged after his wife, Susan, died of cancer in 1982. He was convicted after five women testified that they had been married to him in secret ceremonies when they were minors (one as an 8-year-old) and taken to places outside Arkansas for sex.įormer followers said Mr. They said he began taking multiple wives in the early 1990s and increasingly younger ones thereafter, including a 15-year-old girl in 1994. Alamo had made all decisions for his followers: who got married what children were taught in school who got clothes and who was allowed to eat. State and federal agents raided the compound in September 2008 in an investigation of child abuse and pornography and charged him with sexual abuse. After he left prison he started a new compound in the tiny southwest Arkansas town of Fouke, joined by about 100 followers. He was convicted of tax evasion and served four years in prison. Alamo owed $7.9 million in taxes and federal agents raided his properties in 1991.
Ultimately, the Internal Revenue Service claimed Mr. Alamo presided over several businesses - including gas stations, a hog farm, a grocery store and a restaurant - that funded his ministry. From a 300-acre compound in northwest Arkansas, Mr.
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