Journalist Alexander Cherin won national awards for his 2018 story of a treasure hunt by a Los Angeles radio station, and was so taken with the setting that he wrote a novel using that setting. The book has just been released, and Cherin will come out this afternoon to talk about the fine art weaving together fact and fiction. Copies of the book will be available for sale.
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