Chaos

This book is interesting, I'll give it that. But it is very difficult to follow and inconclusive. I think this book would have worked better in two parts: as a tear down of Helter Skelter and as an investigation into CIA operations and how that connects to Manson. It kind of is written that way but it all blends together too much and could have used more in depth reporting into both areas.

I understand why O'Neill couldn't go too hard at Bugliosi and I understand why he couldn't frame his own theory about what all happened in the Manson investigation. But I think the book suffers for this and O'Neill purposefully ignores writing a compelling narrative in order to get all the facts he's found on paper. Which is fine but again it makes for a much less interesting read. If you find all of this information that points to a cover up, I wanna know why it needs to be covered up.