In 1969, a series of mysterious murders swept across America. Among the victims was Hollywood film star and director Roman Polanski's wife Sharon Tate and her friends. They were dealt with with bestial cruelty, but only one beast uses knives and pistols and leaves messages at the crime scene, written in the blood of the victims... The police quickly captured the killers - a sect that called itself "The Family" led by Charles Manson. The name of the sect leader became a household name for a long time; the media wrote that “if a fruit is an apple, then a cruel killer is Manson.” The death sentence was soon replaced by life imprisonment, and the head of the “Family” could only while away the endless days of conversations with a former cellmate who became a journalist. Thus this book was born. A book about murder, the end of the world and sex - and life without conscience.