A gripping literary memoir of life inside an extremist political group. Invaluable . . . honest . . . intelligent. --Doris Lessing "If you want to know how sensible and educated people can be hooked into a cult run by a psychopath, this honest and intelligent book will tell you. It will be invaluable in the effort to expose the mechanisms of cults and sects." Doris Lessing 'The most gripping inside account of a cult that I have ever read. It is also a literary masterpiece, and a classic of autobiographical writing. By the end, readers will care passionately about the author, her family and...