Chip JacobsChip Jacobs is the author of five other books: Strange As It Seems: the Impossible Life of Gordon Zahler; The Vicodin Thieves: Biopysing L.A.'s Grifters, Gloryhounds and Goliaths; The Ascension of Jerry: Murder, Hitmen and the Making of LA Muckraker erry Schneiderman; The People's Republic of Chemicals; (with William J. Kelly); and the privately issued Black Wednesday Boys. Jacobs's reporting has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, CNN, Bloomberg View, the Daily News of Los Angeles, and LA Weekly, among other outlets. Jacobs, the recipient of numerous writing commendations, lives in Southern California. Read More Read Less