Set during the Great Depression, The Christians tells the seriocomic story of two psychopathic, self-righteously justified, Bible salesmen who murder in the name of God; two serial killers who belive they are doing the greater good, by killing those who have recently cleaned their figurative slate with the Lord. 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.