The Five Jerks You Meet on Earth

Sweet Revenge

Everyone has a bone to pick with some jerk in life. The grade school bully who steals lunch money; the creep who backs into cars in the parking lot and doesn't leave a note; the co-worker who uses others to get ahead… how often do such offenses go unpunished? For every victim of injustice who secretly yearns for retribution, Ray Zardetto depicts a tale of ultimate revenge in The Five Jerks You Meet on Earth (Andrews McMeel Publishing, $12.95).

"You're telling me that I can get even with the five biggest jerks I knew on earth?" Al said, still not quite believing what he was hearing. "I didn't think you guys encouraged this kind of thing. I thought you guys were more about, you know, love thy neighbor, turn the other cheek, and all that stuff."

Adrian raised his eyebrow.

"Vengeance is mine…I will repay, sayeth the Lord," Adrian said softly. "You've heard that, haven't you?"

The Five Jerks You Meet on Earth is a hilarious parody of Mitch Albom's best-selling book, The Five People You Meet in Heaven. Following a fatal merry-go-round accident, hopeless, overweight, and unemployed Al Mitchell find himself in heaven. But instead of meeting the five most influential beings in his short-lived life, Al meets five insignificants, including his third grade teacher and a former dentist. To make up for the glitch in the divine system, a bumbling angel named Adrian gives Al a better alternative: exacting revenge upon his life's most hated individuals.

Taking a totally divergent path from Mitch Albom's heartwarming story of life after death, Ray Zardetto's story will make every wreched reader stand up to cheer for this hapless would-be-hero. As inspiring as it is side-splitting, The Five Jerks You Meet on Earth will have everyone daydreaming about the revenge that they would seek in the hereafter.

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About Ray Zardetto:

Ray Zardetto has been a professional writer for 20 years as a sportswriter, copywriter, advertising manager, and public relations executive. He lives in New Jersey with his wife and two children.

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