CONTENTS

Preface        The End

Chapter 1    Getting Away With It

Chapter 2    Square Peg, Round Hole

Chapter 3    The Dark Thumb of Fate

Chapter 4    A Natural Ingrate

Chapter 5    Observer

Chapter 6    Stranger in a Strange Land

Chapter 7    Among the Angels

Chapter 8    American Dream

Chapter 9    Epiphany

Chapter 10  Freak Power

Chapter 11  Making a Beast of Himself

Chapter 12  Truth Is Never Told in Daylight

Chapter 13  Celebrity

Chapter 14  Casualties of War

Chapter 15  Thompson’s Island

Chapter 16  The Genetic Miracle

Chapter 17  Homecoming

Chapter 18  Man of Letters

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Author’s Note

Acknowledgments

Illustrations

Index