''God Is a Bullet'' is a 1999 mystery novel by

Boston Teran Boston Teran is the pseudonymous American author of sixteen novels published between 1999 and 2023. Teran's legal identity is unknown, and the author engages in limited publicity by doing only one interview per book. Two of Teran's novels have b ...

. The novel follows

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Bob Hightower whose ex-wife has been murdered and his teenage daughter kidnapped by a

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cult; Hightower searches for his daughter with the help of Case Hardin, an escaped victim of the cult. The novel was published by Alfred A. Knopf. It won the CWA New Blood Dagger award, and was a finalist in the Edgar Awards. The novel was made into a 2023

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of the same name.

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1999 American novels Alfred A. Knopf books American mystery novels American novels adapted into films Novels about child abduction Novels about cults Satanism in popular culture {{1990s-mystery-novel-stub