Table of Contents
Author's Note xi
Preface 1
Chapter 1 The First Lie 5
Chapter 2 The Blues Brothers 19
Chapter 3 Darker Than Blue 40
Chapter 4 She Trusted the Police 50
Chapter 5 A Decent Life 56
Chapter 6 A High-Stakes Game 71
Chapter 7 We Were Not Absolutely Sure 81
Chapter 8 A Chamber of Horrors 95
Chapter 9 What in the Fuck Is Going On? 111
Chapter 10 Larry, I Can't Do It 117
Chapter 11 Life's Blood Ran in the Grass 128
Chapter 12 We Will Not Give Up 140
Chapter 13 In This Life or Another 158
Chapter 14 A Closer Look 172
Chapter 15 Without Bitterness 189
Chapter 16 Time for Me to Speak 202
Chapter 17 A Public Face 218
Chapter 18 The Golden Egg 233
Chapter 19 Back in the Swamp 245
Chapter 20 I Worried People 255
Epilogue 271
Timeline 281
Notes 285
Acknowledgments 317
Index 321