Fire on the Mountain

by Roger Sachs

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."

451 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 1, 2007

Reviews

[Sharon · Rating 5 out of 5]

Roger Sachs wrote this book illustrating his life before he was saved and born again. He laid it all bare for the world to see and told his story in a colorful and graphic way that may offend people with a 'delicate' constitution. It truthfully portrays life as he lived it, the good the bad and the ugly. I love his redemption story and I highly recommend it to both believers and unbelievers alike. He didn't clean it up. He told about his life as it was. Then in the last couple of chapters he tells of becoming a new man in Christ and how the grace of God rescued him. It's one amazing story from beginning to end. ( I can't wait to read his follow up book!)

[MarleneJS · Rating 5 out of 5]

only half the story

Unfortunately 80% or more of the book was dark, explaining Rogers’s life as a drug dealer. Yet his crimes never went deeper than things around that story. But just when you get to the good part, where there were signs and supernatural events that eventually brought him to Jesus and salvationit cuts off. After reading his Lonnie Frisbee biography’s, I would have thought he would have made it more inspiring, like those. Nevertheless, he is a good writer and I look forward to his promised conclusion in his next nook.

[Andrew F Bishop · Rating 5 out of 5]

An amazing life

Roger Sachs was a man on a mission, it just happened to be to sell drugs, avoid responsibility and the law. He lived a life most of us can't imagine. Throughout his journey you see God trying to get his attention. This book mostly covers his troubled youth and early twenties.