Jonestown : A Novel

September, 1978 -- two months before the massacre:

Neil Clark has seen the warning signs. He's heard the testimony of those who have defected from the Peoples Temple commune in Guyana, and he knows what's coming. It haunts him. It cripples him with panic attacks. He can't sleep at night because his ten-year-old son, David, is stuck in Jonestown--one of many people held captive in the regime of a maniacal reverend. Neil's only hope is to execute a plan to get his son out of Jonestown before ...