Author Night with Joseph Hartmann
Venue: Blacksburg Books, Blacksburg
Directions: Google Map Link
Date: Thursday, November 18, 2021
Time: 6:30 - 7:30 PM
Event Types: Arts & Theatre, Speaking Engagements
Cost: Free

Description:
Blacksburg Books presents an Author Night with Joseph Hartmann on Thursday, November 18, 2021.

Joseph Hartmann is the author of "Before White Night - Rescue at Jonestown". He will give a brief presentation about his book and answer questions. A book signing will follow.

Bill Hausman, an American diplomat in Guyana, has scarcely heard of Jonestown, the religious "paradise" that has recently established itself deep in the Guyanese jungle. He knows very little about the Peoples Temple or their leader, Jim Jones, a passionate, pro-integrationist minister with a vision of a harmonious future for all God's children-and dark personal demons that will twist that vision into a horrifying nightmare. Yet Bill quickly becomes acquainted with all these things when his world collides with that of John Olsen, an American businessman whose ex-wife has moved to Jonestown, taking their daughter, Katrina, with her. As rumors surface of hunger, beatings, manipulation, and other strange abuses within the closed cult settlement, John grows increasingly frantic to get Katrina out of there, before the cruelest of these rumors comes to fruition...before Jim Jones' long-awaited White Night.

Set in the truth of history, with detail that comes from the author's firsthand experience, Before White Night is a fictionalized account of courage at the threshold of one of the twentieth century's most shocking and unsettling tragedies.

For more information, visit: https://www.blacksburgbooks.com/events/author-night-with-joseph-hartmann or https://www.facebook.com/Blacksburg.Books or call 540-315-9650.

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