everything is a Biblical story here. Let us talk to them—because we can persuade them what the right thing to do is through Biblical narrative and Biblical imagery.’ And they talked to David Koresh, and they made some progress. But it came at the end of the process, and the FBI wer...
Twenty-five years ago, the FBI staged a deadly raid on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco. Texas. David Thibodeau survived to tell the story. When he first met the man who called himself David Koresh, David Thibodeau was a drummer in a local a rock band. Though he had never been re...
When I began writing the trilogy in the early 1990s was when various news reports of “militia movements” and “far right” “patriot” groups began hitting the mainstream media, highlighted by the incident at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, and the take down of David Koresh’s Branch Davidian compound...
I read books six and seven in Amy Gamet’s HERO FORCE series, about a group of former Navy Seals who now work in a shadowy quasi-military capacity. In TARGETED BY THE SEAL, the hero infiltrates a doomsday cult, led by a David Koresh-like “prophet”, to rescue a senator’s daughter...
The FBI's chief hostage negotiator recounts harrowing standoffs, including the Waco siege with David Koresh and the Branch Davidians, in a memoir that serves as a basis for the upcoming series Waco. About the Author Gary Noesner retired from the FBI in 2003 following a thirty-year career as...
Speaking of which, one of the most common themes in a sex cult revolves around the leader, specifically with respect to how their genitals are somehow more holy than everyone else’s. This is how men likeDavid KoreshandWarren Jeffsmanage to convince dozens of pious women to do their religio...