THE AUTHOR

Jerry Amernic is a writer from Toronto. He is the author of five books, a regular contributor to newspapers and magazines, and is both a journalist and novelist.

His first book Victims: The Orphans of Justice was an investigative look at Canada’s criminal justice system from the perspective of victims of violent crime, and it led to a weekly newspaper column called Justice For All in Toronto’s Sunday Sun. He later wrote two business books for a U.S. publisher and then had his first novel, Gift of the Bambino, published in 2002, initially in Canada and two years later in the U.S. Gift of the Bambino received rave reviews across North America from the likes of The Wall Street Journal, The Globe and Mail and many others. Jerry’s latest book, DUTY – The Life of a Cop, is a collaboration with Julian Fantino on Mr. Fantino’s life in law enforcement, and it has been a bestseller. On the fiction front, Jerry likes to write historical fiction.

After graduating from university, Jerry worked as a newspaper reporter before joining a major corporation as a writer and editor. He then went out on his own and became a prolific freelancer writing for magazines. Along the way, he has been a newspaper columnist, a feature correspondent for three different dailies, a magazine editor and publisher, and a consultant to many companies. He has taught at three community colleges, and is a keynote speaker and seminar leader.