A true story of chance, consequence, and survival

It Could Happen To You

Name: It Could Happen To You
Author: Bruce Dobish

One life. Countless turns. No guarantees.

Some lives follow a plan. Others are decided by the roll.

Born in Manhattan and shaped by a life filled with extraordinary turns, Bruce Dobish tells a story that moves through catastrophe, risk, temptation, violence, romance, music, humor, and survival.

This is not a quiet memoir.

It is the story of what happens when life keeps changing the rules.

Chance· Desire· Disaster· Survival· Consequence

The life behind the book

Five turns of a life that refused a script.

01Manhattan

Chapter 01

Manhattan

Born in 1954 into a city that promised everything and guaranteed nothing. Bruce grew up on streets where fortune and ruin lived on the same block, learning early that survival meant paying attention — to people, to odds, and to the quiet moment right before everything changes.

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02The Towers

Chapter 02

The Towers

He was there. What happened inside the World Trade Center disasters rearranged the arithmetic of every ordinary day that followed. This is a chapter about proximity to catastrophe, the strange luck of walking away, and carrying a memory the rest of the world only watched from a distance.

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03The Bet

Chapter 03

The Bet

Cards, dice, and the electric pull of the table. Some wagers are made with money; the dangerous ones are made with a life. Bruce recounts the smoke-filled rooms where fortunes turned on a single roll, and the slow realization that the house he was really gambling with was himself.

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04The Fall

Chapter 04

The Fall

Murder, excess, sex, drugs, and rock and roll — the years when the rules stopped applying and survival became a skill of its own. This is the descent told without flinching: the highs that felt like flying, the company that came with them, and the cost that always arrived later.

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05The Story

Chapter 05

The Story

Every roll finally counted, every debt tallied. What remains is the telling — sharp, honest, and darkly funny. Looking back across a life that refused a script, Bruce assembles the wreckage and the wonder into one fast-moving chronicle of how it all could happen to anyone.

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The memoir

It Could Happen
To You

by Bruce Dobish

A life of risk, chaos, love, loss, music, danger, and survival. “It Could Happen To You” is Bruce Dobish’s fast-moving memoir about the moments no one can predict — and the choices that define what happens next.

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The author

Bruce Dobish

A life fully lived. A story finally told.

Bruce Dobish, born in Manhattan in 1954, makes his literary debut with an autobiography shaped by extraordinary events, hard choices, sharp humor, and an uncompromising view of a life that rarely followed the expected path.

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You never know which decision will change everything.

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A limited run of first-edition copies, personally signed by Bruce. Each one carries the story — and the signature of the man who survived it.

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Every Story Begins
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It Could Happen To You

Some lives follow a plan. Others are decided by the roll.

Five turns of a life that refused a script.

Manhattan

The Towers

The Bet

The Fall

The Story

It Could HappenTo You

Bruce Dobish

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Every Story BeginsWith a Conversation.

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It Could Happen
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Every Story Begins
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