一場理想主義如何變成人間悲劇？本書揭露人民聖殿教的真相，講述吉姆・瓊斯如何用平等、正義的口號吸引上千名信徒，最終卻將他們帶入南美叢林，建立一個與世隔絕的烏托邦。隨著控制、洗腦與謊言不斷堆疊，900人喝下毒藥的驚悚一幕終於上演。作者用冷靜筆觸重現歷史，結合真實證詞與心理剖析，帶領讀者步步走入這段駭人的集體悲劇，令人深思信仰、操控與人性的界線。Winner of the 2025 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Nonfiction!How did Jim Jones, the leader of Peoples Temple, convince more than 900 of his followers to commit "revolutionary suicide" by drinking cyanide-laced punch? From a master of narrative nonfiction comes a chilling chronicle of one of the most notorious cults in American history.Using riveting first-person accounts, award-winning author Candace Fleming reveals the makings of a monster: from Jones’s 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 of Temple headquarters from California to an unsettled territory in Guyana, South America, which he dubbed "Jonestown”… to his transformation of Peoples Temple into a nefarious experiment in min
