The release date for the English version of 'Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties' by
Tom O'Neill is Jun 2019. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Shocking new information regarding the most notorious killings in American history is revealed by a journalist's two-decade fascination with the Manson murders. This information includes allegations of intelligence agency spying, prosecutorial wrongdoing, and police negligence. What actually took place in 1969?
Tom O'Neill was concerned there wouldn't be anything new to write about when he was given a magazine piece to write on the thirty-year anniversary of the Manson murders in 1999. Were the facts not unquestionable? In his grip, Charles Manson's adolescent followers had willingly carried out his seven terrible murderous orders. However, as O'Neill started covering the case, he kept discovering flaws in the prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi's tale, which was for a long time preserved in the best-selling Helter Skelter. O'Neill soon began to wonder about everything from the manhunt to the motive. The Manson murders consumed the next twenty years of his work, even though he had never thought of himself as a conspiracy theorist. He was fixated.
Chaotic but never fanciful, it chronicles O'Neill's two decades-long quest to refute the "official" narrative surrounding Manson. How far would they go to conceal their connections, and who among his true Hollywood pals were they? Why did law enforcement pass up numerous opportunities to apprehend him? And how did he transform a bunch of tranquil hippies into cold-blooded murderers? On a trail riddled with cover-ups and coincidences, O'Neill's search for answers takes him from reclusive celebrities to seasoned spies, from the Summer of Love to the murky locations of the CIA's mind-control operations.
With hundreds of previously unpublished interviews and dozens of never-before-seen LAPD, FBI, and CIA papers, CHAOS presents a case that, in the opinion of Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney Stephen Kay, may be compelling enough to overturn the Manson murder convictions. O'Neill discovers the tale of California in the 1960s during those two gloomy nights in Los Angeles: a time where charlatans coexisted with geniuses, free love was as feasible as brainwashing, and utopia—or dystopia—was only an acid trip away.