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Chip Jacobs is a bestselling author and prize-winning journalist. His forthcoming novel, "Later Days," a loosely connected sequel to his Los Angeles Times bestselling "Arroyo," will be published in late summer 2025. On the narrative, nonfiction side, he wrote the acclaimed true-crime tale "The Darkest Glare," and the biography "Strange As It Seems," an Indies Book of the Year finalist. He is also the co-author, with William J. Kelly, of two environmental social histories: the international bestselling Smogtown and its follow-up, "The People's Republic of Chemicals." He has contributed pieces to anthologies, among them the bestselling "Los Angeles in the 1970s: Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine." Jacobs' reporting has appeared in the L.A. Times, L.A. Daily News, CNN, The New York Times, Bloomberg, L.A Weekly, and elsewhere. Among other recognition, he has won seven Los Angeles Press Club Awards. He is currently at work on a history of the Long Beach Freeway (710) Extension, the planet's longest, fiercest, and arguably most entertaining freeway battle, and several Hollywood projects. Jacobs, a graduate of the University of Southern California, garage-band guitarist, and Beatles fanatic, lives in the L.A. area.
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    • A True Story of Murder, Blackmail, and Real Estate Greed in 1979 Los Angeles
    • Written by: Chip Jacobs
    • Narrated by: Joel Richards
    • Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 2021-03-23
    • Language: English
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