Table of Contents
Prologue: The Running Man ix
Chapter 1 The Fatherless Boy 1
Chapter 2 Detective Story 14
Chapter 3 Adventures in the "Q" 27
Chapter 4 A Year on Serge's Farm 42
Chapter 5 Under the Montreal Microscope 52
Chapter 6 So Close 77
Chapter 7 Lost in Transition 89
Chapter 8 Rioting Russians, Milbury Mind Games 103
Chapter 9 Hoedowns and Harleys 114
Chapter 10 Last Tango in Montreal 121
Chapter 11 The Passion Returns 133
Chapter 12 Twenty-one Games in 42 Nights 155
Chapter 13 Gilmour vs. Gretzky; Burns vs. Melrose 171
Chapter 14 Out of Gas 186
Chapter 15 Locked out and Loaded 204
Chapter 16 Hitting Bottom in Leafland 216
Chapter 17 Butting heads in Beantown 233
Chapter 18 Redemption in the Meadowlands 252
Chapter 19 Chance and Fate 269
Chapter 20 A Surge of Affection 282
Requiem 297
Acknowledgements 299
Photo Credits and Permissions 301
About the Author 303
Index 305