The Gorger

Book excerpt: My life story, tells of a very innocent young boy raised up in very innocent times, by his grandparents, in the suburbs of Chicago and how he becomes man of the house at eleven when his grandfather suddenly dies. In high school he does something that alienates him from his classmates simply because he said he would do it. He is criticized and bullied for the next two and a half years and then the two most popular boys in school befriend him. After graduating he goes to live with his mother in Miami, Florida and is exposed to the outside world. A short, boring stint in college and he finds puppy love. He marries, has a little girl and is doing very well as a realtor on the north shore of Chicago. Two men burst into his office one afternoon and take him down into a basement where he is handcuffed to a chair, bolted to the floor, and threaten. They play one way russian roulette with him from 8:00p.m. to 12:00a.m. and then throw him in jail with a guy who just killed a man. He proves his innocence and moves on with his life, divorces, starting a new job, remarries and divorces, becomes a landlord and refurbisher, remarries and divorces, remarries his first wife, eludes hit man hired by his partner and moves to Miami Florida, divorces first wife again and he moves on.