Author Reiterman was one of the nine people involved in the Georgetown airstrip ambush the morning of the mass suicides. He had spent the previous 18 months researching the Temple for the San Francisco Examiner, and despite his injuries at the hands of Jones’s people – or perhaps because of them – Reiter never lost his obsession with the Peoples Temple. This biography is a testament to that obsession. It goes over every detail of Jones’s life, painstakingly pieced together from Temple documents, eye-witness interviews, audio recordings, and more. But it is not a dull collection of facts. Reiterman’s style blurs the line between fiction and non, telling the tale of Jones in the same way you might speak of someone conversationally, or share stories around a campfire. It makes an engaging narrative to read, but it gets so bogged down in details that only the most devout student of cults and Jim Jones will be able to make it cover to cover.
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