Jumping Off Bridges

About the Book

What does a hot young ad agent do when he loses everything in the 1929 Stock Market Crash? He heads for California and starts a money-machine religious cult, leaving a trail of dead bodies and ruined lives in his wake.

His tragic fall in the late ‘80s marked the end of a kind of cult experience America rarely sees – or does it? Kids, read and heed before you’re tempted to leave home, drink Kool-Aid, die in a hail of bullets, or give up your college money to a conservative, unaccredited institution....

About the Author

In her misspent youth, Carole Ritter was a member of a small apocalyptic cult based in Southern California, which of course for legal reasons bears absolutely no resemblance whatsoever to the fictional cult depicted in this novel. Any similarities to any religious body to which she may have belonged are purely coincidental. Today, she is a writer living in Orange County, and goes to church only for weddings, funerals, and support group meetings in the basements.