Set during the Great Depression, The Christians tells the story of two psychopathic Bible salesmen who murder in the name of God. Hot on their trail is a former Texas Ranger and US Bureau of Investigation (pre-FBI) agent, John Stoddard Pyle, a man who knows no mercy and who does not know exactly who he is chasing as there is no apparent motive and virtually no clues. It encompasses themes as ancient as the Bible and as bloodily contemporary as this morning's headlines.