Table of Contents
Prologue (April 18, 1989) xi
1 "Now You're Gonna Sleep in it" (1950 to 1969) 1
2 Fulton-with Palm Trees (1969 to 1972) 11
3 Fake! (1972) 23
4 My Apprenticeship (1972 to 1975) 37
5 The Last Laugh (1972 to 1975) 49
6 Printing Money (1977) 59
7 The Drug Kingpin of Upland (1979) 69
8 The Adventurers (1979) 79
9 Provenance (1981) 93
10 The Wild West (1982) 103
11 Over the Top (1985) 115
12 The Prince of Fugazi (1986) 127
13 Actually Printing Money (1987) 135
14 Schizophrenic Life (1987) 147
15 My Caravaggio (1987) 155
16 Things Go Bad (1988) 165
17 The Bug Detector (1988) 177
18 Yamagata (1988) 189
19 The Bust (1989) 193
20 Aftermath (1989) 203
21 My Trial (1989 to 1991) 213
22 Back to Square One (1993) 227
23 Out and Down (1994 to 1999) 239
24 The Birth of Tony Montana (the 2000s) 249
25 The Prince's Fugazis (2014 to 2020) 257
Finale 267
Acknowledgments 271