manson. la historia real

Manson. The real story follows Tom O'Neill's twenty-year investigation to disprove the "official" story behind Manson. Who were his true friends in Hollywood and how far would they go to hide the relationships between them? Why didn't the police act on many occasions when they could have? And how did he turn a group of peaceful hippies into unscrupulous murderers?

The search for answers leads O'Neill to pass through solitary celebrities and experienced spies, from the Summer of Love to the shadowy spaces where CIA mind control experiments took place, on a path full of cover-ups and coincidences. A book that presents hundreds of new interviews and dozens of never-before-seen documents from the Los Angeles Police Department, the FBI, and the CIA, reaching conclusions and evidence that could be an argument, according to Los Angeles District Attorney Stephen Kay, strong enough to overturn the verdicts in the Manson case. In those two dark nights in Los Angeles, O'Neill finds the true story of 1960s California: when charlatans mingled with prodigies, when free love was as real as brainwashing, and when utopia could be glimpsed through an acid trip. Critics have said: «Anything you think you know about the Manson murders is false. Completely false. Tom O'Neill's twenty years of meticulous research have uncovered information about the murders, the murderers, the prosecutors, and a strange gallery of police officers, drug dealers, corrupt doctors, famous celebrities, grotesque government investigations, secret agents, and shadowy figures in a cover-up and conspiracy so sweeping and strange that you will be as surprised as you are terrified. If your friends call you paranoid, maybe they're just ignorant.» Joe Ide, author of IQ and Wrecked «Fascinating and masterful. A dazzling and compelling story of an obsessed journalistic detective who invites you to discover sex, drugs, and America's famous serial killer. O'Neill has spent decades uncovering something much stranger than Helter Skelter admitted. Buckle up, this is true crime in its most authentic and thrilling form.» Charles Graeber, journalist and New York Times bestselling author