![]() ![]() By May 1978, Layton had engineered a complex escape plan and returned to the U.S. In the months that followed, she became aware of trouble in ""Paradise,"" realizing she had arrived in a work camp patrolled by armed guards and ruled by a deceitful ""Father"" (Jones), who practiced manipulative mind-control tactics, dictated grueling physical labor, staged suicide drills and devised bizarre punishments such as wrapping a boa constrictor around the neck of a ""sinner"" or hanging children upside-down in a well. ![]() ![]() For seven years, she was Jones's close confidante in California, and in 1977, she left with her mother for the ""Promised Land"" of Jonestown. A troubled teen from an affluent family in Berkeley, Calif., Layton and her mother were introduced to Jones by her brother, Larry. Published on the 20th anniversary of the suicide-murder of more than 900 followers of Reverend Jim Jones in the Guyanese jungle, Layton's book is the first by a former high-level member of the People's Temple. ![]()
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