``A thoroughly readable, thoroughly chilling account of a brilliant con man and his all-too vulnerable prey`` ( The Boston Globe )--the definitive story of preacher Jim Jones, who was responsible for the Jonestown Massacre, the largest murder-suicide in American history, by the New York Times bestselling author of Manson .
His congregation was racially mixed, and.
In the 1950s, a young Indianapolis minister named Jim Jones preached a curious blend of the gospel and Marxism. ``A thoroughly readable, thoroughly chilling account of a brilliant con man and his all-too vulnerable prey`` ( The Boston Globe )--the definitive story of preacher Jim Jones, who was responsible for the Jonestown Massacre, the largest murder-suicide in American history, by the New York Times bestselling author of Manson
