Polygamy Books 


Our mission is to provide the reader with a true, 
unabridged rendering of the Mormon polygamist 
lifestyle, past and present.

    The polygamist lifestyle contains all the ingredients for a good story — intrigue, deception, power, sex, abuse, avarice, and murder. As a former polygamist and law enforcement officer, I am an expert on the issues.

   To understand contemporary polygamy, one needs to see into the minds of these women. To understand the men in polygamy, one needs to study their need of power, dominance, and the male sex drive. To understand the polygamist sects, one must know that their theocratic leadership is more political than religious. Each sect is a monarchy ruled by a despot who is a juggler of love and fear, molding and manipulating the true believer to his advantage. 

 

MURDER OF A PROPHET

MURDER OF A PROPHET: THE DARK SIDE OF UTAH POLYGAMY   By John R. Llewellyn  List Price $13.95  Copyright - February 2000 Soft  Agreka™ Books ISBN 188810693X LC 99-068880 Order Now for the special price of  $10.00 plus shipping, limited amount of books available.

  

A TEENAGER'S TEARS: 
When Parents Convert To Polygamy 

A TEENAGER'S TEARS: When Parents Convert To Polygamy  By John R. Llewellyn  Preface  List Price $14.95 Copyright - Feb 2001  Available in Book Stores March 2001  Agreka™ Books ISBN 188810659X  Library of Congress 00-108807 Order Barnes and Noble Agreka™ Books

Introduction

   In the Allred Group, known as Apostolic United Brethren, of the children born in the "principle" of plural marriage, many more leave than stay. For example, of 48 children sired by the late Rulon C. Allred, only about 17 stayed in the principle. This figure is consistent with the other large polygamist groups. In talking with leading members of the Allred Group, they estimated that between 65 and 80 percent of their children apostatize.
   A few of these dissident children contacted me after reading my novel, Murder of a Prophet. Their stories, together with my own
observation and experiences, inspired me to contact other dissident children and write a second fact-based novel explaining why so many
of these children leave. Their stories deserve to be told.
   Apostolic United Brethren, the least oppressive sect of them all, is the basic model for my new novel, but I have also incorporated events and incidents from the other major groups, and from independent polygamists who belong to no group. I have created fictitious characters to represent the various types of teens and adults found in polygamy.
   Visualize, if you will, what it would be like for an attractive, seventeen year old girl to have her parents suddenly join a polygamist sect.
   It happened to Emma. One day her life was normal, the next day she was thrust into a polygamist subculture. Emma’s experiences, and the experiences of her friends, are typical of hundreds of young people living in cult-like Mormon polygamist sects.
   The story is told from Emma’s point of view, and from her perspective she sees little of the polygamist lifestyle to be desired. But as she moves about in the culture, she meets girls and women who find plural marriage desirable, secure, spiritual, and compatible in ways that satisfy their present needs and desires. If it were not so, there wouldn’t be so many of them.
   Women are the backbone and adhesive element that is indispensable to the success of polygamy. Many find plural marriage enriching, adventurous, more free and rewarding than monogamy. However, in some groups women are brainwashed and herded around until cut out like cattle. Others are skillfully programmed with inferiority complexes, making them dependent upon unscrupulous, lecherous leaders. Still others are raised in isolation making them ill-equipped to compete and survive in a modern cosmopolitan society. Some are by nature content to allow what they perceive as powerful, righteous men to take control of their lives.



The Mormon Svengali Tom Green: And Utah’s Most Notorious 21^st Century Polygamists
By John R. Llewellyn

Mormon Svengali Tom Green:  And Utah’s Most Notorious 21st Century Polygamists

Coming soon!

 

 

Books authored by John R. Llewellyn:  * Murder of a Prophet * Tears of a Teenager * Mormon Svengali Tom Green