Death in the Jungle:

Death in the Jungle is an exploration of the Jonestown massacre and how cult leader Jim Jones manipulated over 900 followers into committing "revolutionary suicide."

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 mind-control.

Fleming also heart-stoppingly depicts Jones’s final act, persuading his followers to swallow fatal doses of cyanide — to “drink the kool-aid,” as it became known — as a test of their ultimate devotion.

Here is a sweeping story that traces, step by step, the ways in which one man slowly indoctrinated, then murdered, 900 innocent, well- meaning people. And how a few members, Jones' own son included, stood up to him... but not before it was too late.