Contents

    Author’s Note

PART I

    Initiation

    The Traveling Medicine Show

    Escape

    No Frills

    Waiting

    The Visit

    City Island

    Mystery Plays

    Outcast

    Highcrest

PART II

    Highrise

    Felix’s

    Makeover

    The Comanche

    Bordello

    The Gentleman Player

    Slim’s Wide Missouri

    Love in the Afternoon

    A Short Engagement

    Covenants

    Casa Pacifica

    The Mohican

    Island of Women

PART III

    Eddie Apollo

    Gravity Knife

    Hopheads

    The Rescue

    End of the Line

    Foxhole

    Blackout

    Park Bench

    Another Rescue

    Bellevue

    The Wake

    Epilogue

    About the Author