The Ascension of Jerry: Business Lies, Hitmen and the Making of an L.a. Muckraker First edition

Bumbling hitmen. Burning corpses. A threatened son. Life in hiding. Jerry Schneiderman s orderly world evaporated when his business partner was executed by an assassin in 1979 Los Angeles, and the buzzard-eyed ringleader came for him.

Though the killers behind the murder-for-hire corporation were nabbed, the trauma annihilated Jerry s family and strip-mined his trust. Recovery only came years later with Jerry s improbable rebirth as a prank-loving activist who defended the weak by milking his scars.