From the New York Times-bestselling author David Duchovny an epic adventure that asks how we
make sense of right and wrong in a world of extremesFor the past twenty years Bronson Powers
former Hollywood stuntman and converted Mormon has been homesteading deep in the uninhabited
desert outside Joshua Tree with his three wives and ten children. Bronson and his wives
Yalulah Mary and Jackie have been raising their family away from the corruption and evil of
the modern world. Their insular existence-controversial difficult but Edenic-is upended when
the ambitious young developer Maya Abbadessa stumbles upon their land. Hoping to make a profit
she crafts a wager with the family that sets in motion a deadly chain of events. Maya
threatening to report the family to social services convinces them to enter three of their
children into a nearby public school. Bronson and his wives agree that if Maya can prove that
the kids do better in town than in their desert oasis they will sell her a chunk of their
priceless plot of land. Suddenly confronted with all the complications of the twenty-first
century that they tried to keep out of their lives the Powerses must reckon with their
lifestyle as they try to save it. Truly Like Lightning David Duchovny's fourth novel is a
heartbreaking meditation on family religion sex greed human nature and the vanishing
environment of an ancient desert.
