THE ACCIDENTAL ANARCHIST is the true story of Jacob Marateck who, by the time he was 25-years old, had been sentenced to death three times in the early 1900s in Russia -- and lived to tell about it. That was when he decided to overthrow the Czar. The book is based on Marateck's diaries and maintains his unique voice that was filled with humor and optimism despite poverty, starvation, and the horrors of war. His story is proof that it is not only the circumstances of our lives that determine who we are, but rather the way we choose to interpret them that defines our personalities and, to some extent, our destinies.