Son of Man

By S.J. Hawley

"He was standing at the crossroads now. Looking for a sign. If he went forward at this point, there was no turning back. It was war to the knife with society. The cops, the businessmen, the politicians and lawyers. He’d be taking them all on. In his heart, he knew that it meant his doom, but what the hell. He’d been born to hard-luck. Marked out for failure from the beginning. That was his karma. It wasn’t his place to fight what was preordained. There was something in him that welcomed his personal downfall, almost willed it. Born to lose. That was charlie manson and he’d known it all along."

Los angeles, 1969. The slaughter of film star sharon tate and her friends by charles manson and his female disciples brought the age of aquarius to a bloody, if well-deserved, end. But what inspired the acid-crazed former jailbird and his teenage devotees to kill? Featuring a cast of rock stars, street trash and hollywood players, this is a journey into the psychedelic era's heart of darkness, a downward spiral into drugs, violence and perverted sex that lays bare the darkest corners of the american dream.

• Language: English
• Publisher: S.J. Hawley
• Release date: May 12, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310039843

S.J. Hawley

Author biogs are only worth reading if you're Jack London, William Burroughs or Ernest Hemingway. Like most writers, the only interesting events in my life take place on paper. In which case, I am a piquant mixture of ageing Lothario, Special Forces operative and underworld sociopath, masquerading in real life as a white-collar graduate drone and suburban commuter.

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