This FICTIONAL novel based on actual events is the story of Charles Manson--a petty criminal who became a hippie cult leader. He orchestrated the 1969 murders of movie actress Sharon Tate and six others in Los Angeles to ignite a race war he called "Helter Skelter" a term taken from The Beatles "White Album", which Manson believed had hidden messages prophesizing a violent Armageddon that would wipe out the white race. The novel chronicles his childhood,...