“Bogart Sleeps Here” Marks Debut of Unique Noir Character

LOS ANELES, CA (May 19, 2005) What kind of danger befalls a desperate writer who sells a piece of sordid Hollywood gossip to the tabloids? Plenty, if you’re the hero of Rodger Jacobs’ new novel, “Bogart Sleeps Here”, a gritty, true life neo-noir thriller.

Jacobs uses the dark and lyrical prose of the hardboiled masters to essay the daily life of his fictional alter ego, Trace, as he struggles to land assignments and juggle creditors and other dangerous assailants. He says he draws on fifteen years of experience as a writer-for-hire to create the fast-paced tale and its cast of colorful characters.

“Being a writer-for-hire is a lot like being on the grift,” says Jacobs. “And when you’re on the grift, particularly in a cold city like Los Angeles, a lot of strange and downfallen characters gravitate into your orbit.”

In “Bogart Sleeps Here”, Trace becomes mired in quicksand after he agrees to broker a sale to the tabloids for David Dulce, a broken-down and aging gay hustler with secrets to spill and skeletons to set free from the closet for the right amount of cash. But brokering for Dulce places Trace in the middle of a feud between eccentric and dangerous pop superstar Rhapsody Williams and Nasser Reid, a venerable Israeli Mafia chieftain whose fallen on times so hard he can’t even afford bullets for his gun. When a small child that Trace encounters ends up dead in a San Pedro oil field, followed shortly by the brutal beating death of Trace’s ex-girlfriend, the police suspect that Trace’s stalker – a deranged fan with Borderline Personality Disorder and a predisposition toward psychosis – might have something to do with it. Or perhaps Trace has finally lost his struggle to maintain his cool sanity in the cold steel jungle of L.A.

“Ideally, I see this as a crime fiction franchise,” says Jacobs. “There has already been interest in the manuscript from several production companies in L.A.”

Jacobs is currently shopping the manuscript to publishers through his production and publishing firm, 8763 Wonderland, Ltd.

Rodger Jacobs is the author of the bestselling “Christopher Walken and the Tuna Fish Sandwich and Other L.A. Stories” and is a noted journalist and feature documentary producer (“Wadd: The Life and Times of John C. Holmes”, “Guns of the Civil War”).

FOR INFORMATION, CONTACT:
Rodger Jacobs
8763 Wonderland, Ltd.
450 W. Pioneer Drive, Suite 585
Glendale, CA 91203
818-956-0202, Ext. 585