Kit Lamb, as a troubled teenager, has been drawn into a Charismatic Christian church, where he feels "saved" not only by his new religion but by his fatherly pastor, Ezra. Now, at twenty-one, he travels to Guatemala to learn Spanish and fit himself for life as a missionary. In 1983, Guatemala is ruled by born-again, bible-believing dictator, Efra n R os Montt, a real historical figure admired by Ronald Reagan and many U.S. evangelicals but condemned...