The Lesson Plan

Times are tough in L.A. and Robert Klayman, substitute high school teacher, attempts to solve his money woes along with a mid-life crisis by trying on a new career; he finds a job moonlighting as a private detective.He’s in over his head and soon enough stumbles upon a criminal drug ring working out of the Los Angeles Unified School District. His efforts and schemes to find the murderer of a young teacher take him on a spine tingling journey through the violent netherworld of private detection.From the streets of L.A. to the gaudy casinos on the Vegas strip and to the surreal, ghostly Arizona landscapes, Klayman finally redeems himself, but at a price he never could imagine.

G.J. Prager currently lives in Los Angeles. A New York native, he’s worked as an actor on stage, TV, and in film, and taught literature and drama at a Los Angeles high school. ’The Lesson Plan’ is his first novel.