No one in Los Angeles does just one thing. She's a model actress, he's a singer, songwriter, and almost everyone is a writer director. In l A lingo, they call these fancy titles multi hyphen its, and of course they're mostly just talk. Few of these wild eyed dreamers ever make their mark in any of the things they claim
to do, but not in this case. This is the story of one of l A's most intriguing and original multi hyphen its, a writer who in the nineties wrote a memorable novel about a sad loner who sets fires around Los Angeles because it turns him on sexually. Chapter one is about a fire, Chapter two is about a different fire, Chapter three, Chapter four, Chapter five, Fire Fire Fire.
This book was not a great work of fiction, But if you looked closer at the details of the different fires described in each chapter as investigators and prosecutors, eventually did you discovered that this might not be a work of fiction at all. This book starts to look a lot like the real confessions of one of the most elusive and prolific arsonists in American history. A brush Fire burned twenty nine other fires, left an eighteen million dollar
trail of ashes. Southern California was being deep to death with fires. Governor George Duke Major offered a fifty dollar reward or the arrest of the arsonists. This Firebug left investigators so stumped that they started to wonder. I told him it's one of us. Everybody kind of just looks at me. This is the incendiary true story of the man who spent years lighting up Los Angeles more than anyone. We're gonna get this guy, a master fire starter, the
Mostlympic arsonist of the twentieth century, turned writer. I'm going to confess in a book what I've been doing for the past seven years, who inevitably became the worst was in a home improvement store where four people died, including a child. A murderer too. I'm carry Antholis and this is Firebug, a new audio series coming soon to Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. This guy's not gonna stop, you know, if firebugs don't stop,