How did Jim Jones, the leader of Peoples Temple, convince more than 900 of his followers to commit "revolutionary suicide" by drinking cyanidelaced punch? From a master of narrative nonfiction comes a chilling chronicle of one of the most notorious cults in American history.Using riveting firstperson accounts, awardwinning author Candace Fleming reveals the makings of a monsterfrom Joness humble origins as a child of the Depression to his founding of a group whose idealistic promises of equality and justice attracted thousands of followers to his relocation ofTemple headquarters from California to an unsettled territory in Guyana, South America, which he dubbed "Jonestown to his transformation ofPeoples Temple into a nefarious experiment in mindcontrol.And Fleming heartstoppingly depicts Joness final act, persuading his followers toswallow fatal doses of cyanideto drink the koolaid, as it became knownas a test of their ultimate devotion.Here is a sweeping story that traces, step by step, theways in which one man slowly indoctrinated, then murdered, 900 innocent, well meaning people. And how a few members, Jones own son included, stood up to him... but not before it was too late.

Binding: Hardback;368 pages; Publisher: Random House USA Inc; Classification: YF; Weight: 672 g; Dimensions: 236 x 164 x 34

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