The Vicodin Thieves: Biopsying L.A.'s Grifters, Gloryhounds, and Goliaths by Chip Jacobs

The Vicodin Thieves: Biopsying L.A.'s Grifters, Gloryhounds, and Goliaths by Chip Jacobs

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Investigative reporter Chip Jacobs goes deep into some of his most compelling journalism pieces of the last three decades with his signature spotlight on strange corruption, seedy individuals, megalomaniacs, bright ideas, and transgressive game-changers. Featuring in-depth and expanded stories previously published in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and others, The Vicodin Thieves is an instant classic of crime, politics, and socio-analysis.
 
 
"Chip Jacobs' eye on the sad, seamy and scandalous nether pockets of the Los Angeles region is one of the keenest I've ever experienced in decades of reading about my native city. THE VICODIN THIEVES could be the New Journalism lovechild of the works of Tom Wolfe and Joan Didion; it's every bit as sociologically expansive as it is all-too-human. A must-read for anyone who wants his or her LA-centric bookshelf or Kindle to be considered complete!"
—David Kukoff, author of Children of the Canyon
 
 
About the Author
 
Chip Jacobs is the author of five other books: Strange As It Seems: the Impossible Life of Gordon Zahler; The People's Republic of Chemicals; Smogtown: the Lung-Burning History of Pollution in Los Angeles (the later two with William J. Kelly); The Ascension of Jerry: Murder, Hitmen and the Making of  LA Muckraker Jerry Schneiderman; and the privately issued Black Wednesday Boys. Jacobs' reporting has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, CNN, Bloomberg View, the Daily News of Los AngelesLA Weekly, among other outlets. Jacobs, the recipient of numerous writing commendations, lives in Southern California. Visit chipjacobs.com to learn more.