Scout: A Memoir of Investigative Journalist Michael C. Ruppert with Against the Dying of the Light Jenna Orkin On April 13, 2014, investigative journalist and subject of Chris Smith's 2009 documentary, Collapse, Michael C. Ruppert, committed suicide. Ruppert was best known for his explosive revelations concerning the US government's involvement in drug-dealing, later corroborated in the film Kill the Messenger; as well as evidence he uncovered of insider trading and war games surrounding the attacks of 9/11. Scout describes his bouts of suicidal ideation following the smashing of all seven computers at the website he founded, Fromthewilderness.com, as well as his troubled childhood, to reveal a complex and fascinating man. Jenna Orkin is a writer and journalist whose short documentary, EnGaged: Carolyn Gage On Stage and Off, has received a Top Indie Film as well as an LA Shorts