"An engrossing David and Goliath tale...a powerful story." - Houston Chronicle

The Light on Synanon (307 pp. with photos)Send $7.50 plus $2.00 postage to:The Point Reyes LightPOB 210Pt. Reyes Station, CA 94956

  The Light on Synanon is the heroic and human story of three people, small-town newspaper publishers David and Cathy Mitchell and sociologist/consultant Richard Ofshe, who set out to do their job and found themselves exposing a multimillion-dollar cult - Synanon.
  The hundreds of stories and editorials they wrote about Synanon won the Point Reyes Light the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for Meritorious Public Service.


  "Recommended reading for anyone interest in either investigative reporting or how good journalists practice their profession." - Denver Post

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