Fire on the Mountain is a window into the world of the 1960s and ’70s, capturing the extreme transformation culturally in a nation and personally in the life of Roger Sachs. After hitting rock bottom, Roger determines to follow his own “master plan”—a way to force fate’s hand and create his version of the American dream. However, Roger’s plan slowly unravels into a nightmare as the freedom and excitement give way to the darker reality of the sexual revolution and the hippie movement. It is a story full of superstition and the supernatural—where a coin toss can determine the outcome of very dangerous drug deals—and with a cast of characters that includes Malibu surfers and artists, dealers and drug lords, escapees, kingpins, middlemen, and even a Mexican wrestler called the Phantom. Roger’s life story takes readers from the farms of Fremont, Ohio, to the cold streets of Vienna, to a Mexican prison, and a treehouse in Topanga Canyon with a beautiful African lion named Kara Jane on a fast-paced journey that leads to the most radical, life-altering event of all . . .

"I didn’t know it, but my whole life was in that late-night mode, the midnight hour. A huge fire would eventually sweep through Topanga Canyon a couple years later. But the fire on the mountain my friend Steve felt that night in my tree house was personally coming after me. I could feel it coming."

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