A journalist’s twenty-year fascination with the Manson murders leads to shocking new revelations about the FBI’s involvement in this riveting reassessment of an infamous case in American history. Over two grim nights in Los Angeles,the young followers of Charles Manson murdered seven peopleincluding the actress Sharon Tatethen eight months pregnant. With no mercy and seemingly no motivethe Manson Family followed their leader’s every order-their crimes lit a flame of paranoia across the nationspelling the end of the sixties. Manson became one of history’s most infamous criminalshis name forever attached to an era when charlatans mixed with prodigiesfree love was as possible as brainwashingand utopia-or dystopia-was just an acid trip away. Twenty years agowhen journalist Tom O’Neill was reporting a magazine piece about the murdershe worried there was nothing new to say. Then he unearthed shocking evidence of a cover-up behind the \