HOME View All Genre

Book

Audiobook

GENRES 🌙 Dark

Death in the Jungle: Murder, Betrayal, and the Lost Dream of Jonestown (Unabridged) - Candace Fleming

By Candace Fleming

Release Date: 2025-04-29

Genre: Kids & Young Adults

(0 ratings)
Preview Intro
1
Death in the Jungle: Murder, Betrayal, a Candace Fleming
Play Full Download
How did Jim Jones, the leader of Peoples Temple, convince more than 900 of his followers to commit "revolutionary suicide" by drinking cyanide-laced punch? From a master of narrative nonfiction comes a chilling chronicle of one of the most notorious cults in American history.

Using riveting first-person accounts, award-winning author Candace Fleming reveals the makings of a monster: from Jones’s humble origins as a child of the Depression… to his founding of a group whose idealistic promises of equality and justice attracted thousands of followers… to his relocation of Temple headquarters from California to an unsettled territory in Guyana, South America, which he dubbed "Jonestown”… to his transformation of Peoples Temple into a nefarious experiment in mind-control.

And Fleming heart-stoppingly depicts Jones’s final act, persuading his followers to swallow fatal doses of cyanide—to “drink the kool-aid,” as it became known—as a test of their ultimate devotion.

Here is a sweeping story that traces, step by step, the ways in which one man slowly indoctrinated, then murdered, 900 innocent, well- meaning people. And how a few members, Jones' own son included, stood up to him... but not before it was too late.

* This audiobook edition includes a downloadable PDF with sources and a bibliography.

Death in the Jungle: Murder, Betrayal, and the Lost Dream of Jonestown (Unabridged) - Candace Fleming

By Candace Fleming

Release Date: 2025-04-29

Genre: Kids & Young Adults

(0 ratings)
Play Full Download
How did Jim Jones, the leader of Peoples Temple, convince more than 900 of his followers to commit "revolutionary suicide" by drinking cyanide-laced punch? From a master of narrative nonfiction comes a chilling chronicle of one of the most notorious cults in American history.

Using riveting first-person accounts, award-winning author Candace Fleming reveals the makings of a monster: from Jones’s humble origins as a child of the Depression… to his founding of a group whose idealistic promises of equality and justice attracted thousands of followers… to his relocation of Temple headquarters from California to an unsettled territory in Guyana, South America, which he dubbed "Jonestown”… to his transformation of Peoples Temple into a nefarious experiment in mind-control.

And Fleming heart-stoppingly depicts Jones’s final act, persuading his followers to swallow fatal doses of cyanide—to “drink the kool-aid,” as it became known—as a test of their ultimate devotion.

Here is a sweeping story that traces, step by step, the ways in which one man slowly indoctrinated, then murdered, 900 innocent, well- meaning people. And how a few members, Jones' own son included, stood up to him... but not before it was too late.

* This audiobook edition includes a downloadable PDF with sources and a bibliography.

More by Candace Fleming

The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia (Unabridged)

Fatal Throne: The Wives of Henry VIII Tell All (Unabridged)

Lowji Discovers America (Unabridged)

Ben Franklin's in My Bathroom! (Unabridged)

Amelia Lost : The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart

Murder Among Friends: How Leopold and Loeb Tried to Commit the Perfect Crime (Unabridged)

Enigma Girls: How Ten Teenagers Broke Ciphers, Kept Secrets, and Helped Win World War II (Scholastic Focus)

The Rise and Fall of Charles Lindbergh (Unabridged)

The Curse of the Mummy: Uncovering Tutankhamun's Tomb (Scholastic Focus)

Guys Read: True Stories

Death in the Jungle: Murder, Betrayal, and the Lost Dream of Jonestown (Unabridged)

Muncha, Muncha, Muncha

Honeybee

The Great and Only Barnum : The Tremendous, Stupendous Life of Showman P. T. Barnum

Presenting Buffalo Bill

Strongheart: Wonder Dog of the Silver Screen (Unabridged)

Unraveling the Mystery of Flying Saucers, Alien Beings, and Roswell

The Desperate Ride of Caesar Rodney

Eleanor Roosevelt's in My Garage! (Unabridged)

The Fabled Fourth Graders of Aesop Elementary School

Narwhal: Unicorn of the Arctic (Unabridged)

Tippy, Tippy, Tippy Hide!

The Instrument That Ben Built

Is It Real? The Loch Ness Monster

Related Articles