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 messagesprophesying a violent Armageddon that would wipe out the white race. The novel chronicles his childhood, criminal career, and the events that led Manson and his friends to commit the Tate-LaBianca murders.