activism Archives - Chip Jacobs https://chipjacobs.com/tag/activism/ Author & Journalist Fri, 27 Sep 2024 22:20:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 Trailer for my true-crime book: “The Darkest Glare: A True Story of Murder, Blackmail and Real Estate Greed in 1979 Los Angeles” https://chipjacobs.com/trailer-for-my-true-crime-book-the-darkest-glare-a-true-story-of-murder-blackmail-and-real-estate-greed-in-1979-los-angeles/ https://chipjacobs.com/trailer-for-my-true-crime-book-the-darkest-glare-a-true-story-of-murder-blackmail-and-real-estate-greed-in-1979-los-angeles/#respond Tue, 11 May 2021 21:14:16 +0000 http://34.168.138.187/?p=81447 If you're a fan of Quentin Tarantino movies or Elmore Leonard books, you'll love this darkly humorous, true crime thriller set in late-seventies Southern California ...

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]]> It was a sunny place for shady characters back then, with murder-for-hire a cottage industry. The cantankerous zeitgeist is reminiscent of today’s America. Warning: the Kafka-esque events are stranger than fiction.

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