CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

PRELUDE

ACT I: THE FIRST WEEK

ONE: The Contenders

TWO: Lazarus Rising

THREE: A Matter of Timing

FOUR: Double Trouble

FIVE: The Man from Monterrey

SIX: The American Express

SEVEN: The Great Escape

ACT II: THE SECOND WEEK

EIGHT: Mountain Men

NINE: Yellow Peril

TEN: Defence of the Realm

ELEVEN: National Service

ACT III: THE FINAL WEEK

TWELVE: L’Americaine Jaune

THIRTEEN: Setting the Fires of Hell Ablaze

FOURTEEN: Widening Margins

FIFTEEN: No Surrender

ACT IV: EIGHT SECONDS

SIXTEEN: Capital Gains

SEVENTEEN: Thirty Minutes from Immortality

EIGHTEEN: The Aftermath

BIBLIOGRAPHY

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS