Tom O'Neill is an award-winning investigative journalist whose work has appeared in Premiere, New York, the Village Voice, and Details. Together with Dan Piepenbring, Tom O'Neill spent 20 years writing Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties.

The Enlightened Dirtbags review and discuss Chaos in the Season 2 Finale and have a surprising Octane rating for O'Neill's work. To celebrate the "boss level" book, V2 has a giveaway that you'll have to listen in for to get the secret details.

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The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War, by Ben Macintyre, is a stunning account of Oleg Gordievsky's work as a double agent for MI6.

Macintyre takes the political, historical, and cultural situation of the Cold War and writes a captivating true narrative of Gordievsky's almost unbelievable contribution to global security. #Books #Reading #Espionage #SpyCraft #ColdWar #Russia #SovietUnion #Enlightened #Dirtbags

Marching Powder, by Rusty Young, is The Astonishing Real-life Story of a Brit Drug Smuggler Banged Up in Bolivia's Most Notorious Jail.

Thomas McFadden was busted for attempting to smuggle 5 kilos of cocaine out of Bolivia, and Marching Power is Thomas's story of surviving and thriving in San Pedro prison.

Listen to the Enlightened Dirtbags discuss the funny, depressing, and stunning details of life inside San Pedro prison.

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