My Husband's Trying to Kill Me! by Jim Schutze

My Husband's Trying to Kill Me! by Jim Schutze

PLAYING DEAD WAS HER LAST RESORT

Written with the full cooperation of Linda DeSilva, this is the shocking true story of an American dream that became one woman's brutal nightmare. It's a riveting account of the FBI sting that demanded she take a desperate chance to outwit her hitman by pretending to be murdered - to nab the husband who hired an assassin to kill her.

"MY HUSBAND'S TRYING TO KILL ME!"

As Texas boomed in the late 1970's Linda and Robert Edelman were the ideal couple. Robert made a fortune in Dallas real estate. A devoted mother and charming socialite, Linda was a truly talented Dallas beauty who had danced on the the Broadway stage. But when the Texas economy began to falter, Robert's hair-trigger anger exploded into sudden, uncontrollable rages - savage, terrifying attacks that finally forced Linda to seek a divorce. She knew Robert would fight dirty. But the horror truly began the day she learned he had hired a stone-cold killer and taken out a contract on her life.