Jumping Off Bridges

What does a hot young ad agent do when he loses everything in the 1929 stock market crash? He heads for California and starts a money-machine religious cult, leaving a trail of dead bodies and ruined lives in his wake. His tragic fall in the late '80s marked the end of a kind of cult experience America rarely sees-or does it? Kids, read and heed before you're tempted to leave home, drink Kool-Aid, die in a hail of bullets, or give up your college money to a conservative, unaccredited institution . . . .