Satan's Slaves

"Just how did Charles Manson coerce his teenage followers to indulge in sadistic acts of torture and brutality? Richard Allen was Britain's most prolific pulp writer of the early seventies. Skinhead, Suedehead and Bootboys, his most notorious books, were all violent exploitation novels aimed at the youth. But allen was always on the lookout for social trends and during the sixties he'd spent some time on the West Coast, checking out the American scene... Satan's Slaves is a vivid account of drop-out California. Allen fingers hippie cult leader Charles Manson as living proof that straight society has been abandoned by an entire generation. Way ahead of its time, Satan's Slaves also discovers a burgeoning tribal youth culture at least twenty years before 1990s cyber-media hacks pick up the scent."