On a peaceful August morning in 1985, grim-faced FBI agents led a dawn
raid on an eighty-acre farm outside Rulo, Nebraska, said to be occupied
by a group of religious survivalists led by the charismatic Mike Ryan.
What they found on the farm shocked even experienced investigators. For
months Ryan's Nebraska neighbors spoke in whispers of gunfire in the
night, the disappearance of women and children, neo-Nazis and white
supremacists. But little did the locals know what was happening to those
Mike Ryan decided to punish for their "sins." In Evil Harvest, Rod
Colvin re-creates a chilling story of torture, hate, and perversion, and
how good, ordinary people could be pulled into a destructive, religious
cult--a cult that committed unthinkable acts in the name of God.