The Creed of Violence, Boston Teran
The Creed of Violence, Boston Teran
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The Creed of Violence

Author: Boston Teran

Narrator: Armando Durn

Unabridged: 6 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/01/2013

Synopsis

Mexico, 1910. 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. But Rawbones plan spins against him, and he soon finds himself at the Mexican-American border and 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 while under the command of Agent John Lourdes. Rawbone sees no other option and agrees to the dealbut he fails to recognize the true identity of Agent Lourdes, a man from deep within his past. 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 Americas history of foreign intervention for the sake of oil.

About Boston Teran

Boston Teran is
the acclaimed author of several novels, including God Is a Bullet, considered a cult classic that has been compared
to such seminal works as Joan Didion’s The
White Album and John Ford’s The
Searchers; Never Count Out the Dead,
which has been called a modern equivalent of Macbeth; and Trois Femmes (Three Women),
which has been reviewed as “a true masterpiece.” Teran’s works have been published
around the world and have been nominated for or won such awards as the
International Impact Award of Dublin for Best Novel, the Best Novel of the Year
in Japan, and the John Creasy Award in England.

Reviews

Goodreads review by James

In 1910, a father and the son he abandoned as a child are thrown together against the backdrop of the coming Mexican Revolution. The father, a criminal assassin named Redbone, has hijacked a truckload of munitions that he intends to sell into the coming maelstrom. But before he can do so, Redbone is......more

Goodreads review by Steve

Given the most recent round of oil wars in Libya, Creed of Violence makes for some timely reading. Oh, it's another time and place (Mexico, 1910), but the reader will find some remarkable parallels. Controlling the oil is what's key here, and Teran does a good job bringing this bit of obscure histor......more

Goodreads review by Steve

Next Todd Field movie, w/ Christian Bale. Feels like it was written for the cinema (and in his Acknowledgements he thanks a couple producers). Nice mix of actioneer with imperialist oil politics. Sometimes a bit too obvious to show 2014 not that different from 1910, not that different from 1898. The......more

Goodreads review by K

This is a serious book. If it were an automobile, it would be the kind of high performance car that requires your attention, forces you to actively engage in the experience and rewards your efforts with a drive that you’ll remember a long time. Some books, many books, invite you to sit back, relax, a......more

Goodreads review by Alger

This is a rave review. I would claim that this is something of a discovery, however, it is only one for me since apparently everyone else has enjoyed Teran's novels for a decade and a half without my noticing. The use of language is what really makes this novel ring all the bells. The plot is not orig......more

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