Brian Evenson
Father of Lies

"Father of Lies is a remarkable book, with enormous potential to inflame — not antagonize, although that will be an organic consequence — to set the kind of fire without which no institutional injustice can ever be incinerated. I admire Evenson's writing and respect his courage. Father of Lies is quite amazing. As will be the response." — Andrew Vachss, author of Blossom, Born Bad, and Strega

In this chilling psychological thriller, Brian Evenson delivers with cold precision the tale of a provost from the Corporation of the Blood of the Lamb and his affection — an unholy predilection — for children. The provost's sickness emerges deliberately, and the reader is drawn into the disturbing inner workings of a violent pedophile.

As accusations against the provost are made public, the church is forced to respond. In an effort to protect one of its own, and, in turn, to protect itself, the Committee for the Strengthening of the Church launches an all-out cover-up.

Evenson holds the reader to the page until the novel's fatal end. En route, he calls to question whether obedience to God justifies taking every liberty, right or wrong. And he brings to light how a divinely inspired institution can be as eager as its worldly counterpart to soil its hands in the furthering of the cause of supposed righteousness.

Father of Lies is Brian Evenson's first novel. A collection of short stories, Altmann's Tongue, was published by Knopf in 1994. Evenson earned his PhD at the University of Washington. He teaches creative writing at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Oklahoma, where he lives with his wife and two daughters. He is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

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