Deadly Devotion: The Charles Manson Story

CHARLES MANSON. His name is synonymous with evil. He was America's scariest boogeyman who has haunted our nightmares and fascinated us at the same time for decades. But who WAS Charles Manson? How did a petty criminal end up becoming an evil cult leader who brainwashed and twisted a group of innocent young people into vicious bloodthirsty killers?

Find out in this captivating, epic FICTIONAL NOVEL about the infamous Charles Manson and his followers who became known as "The Manson Family".

Is a person born bad, or does their environment lead them to do bad things? All Charlie wanted was to be loved. Raised by a rebellious teenager who was more interested in booze and cheap thrills, Charles Manson grew up to be a petty criminal who made one bad decision after another. Existing on the fringes of society, Charlie ends up in prison for several years of his life.

After being released in the turbulent late1960s, Charlie dreams of becoming a rock star. While living on the streets of Los Angeles, he meets a lonely young woman named Mary and they fall in love. Charlie and Mary open their relationship to other young runaways and outcasts, forming a family of lovers. At first, it is all fun and games as Charlie and his family travel around making music and spreading a gospel of love.

But when they move onto an abandoned movie ranch, drugs and isolation turn Charlie into a paranoid and dangerous man. His family begins to see Charlie as a messiah, and he abuses that power to control everyone and everything around him.

With the rise of racial tensions in Los Angeles, Charlie becomes convinced an apocalyptic race war is coming and that he and his family must survive it so he can become ruler of the world. But Charlie grows impatient and decides he and his followers must start the war themselves by murdering rich white people or "pigs" and orchestrates a horrifying blood-drenched murder spree in the Hollywood hills that STILL shocks and fascinates the world today.