Billion Dollar Rainmaker Part I

Like the lost Angelenos who sprang to life in his imagination, George Hatcher grew out of the competitive barrios of East Los Angeles and lived at least two lifetimes before his twentieth birthday.

As a fresh ten-year old bilingual boy fresh off the bus in Los Angeles, he introduces his Spanish-speaking mother to the man who will become his stepfatherr, chases business and girls and falls so passionately in love that he marries three times in his first two decades. He lives by one truth: he...