Copyright 1975 by Michael Korda and Paul Gitlin.
Trustee for the benefit of Christopher Korda.

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions.

Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada, Limited, Toronto, Canada.

The author and the publisher are grateful for permission to quote from the following books:

The Glass Dead Game, by Herman Hesse. Translated by Richard and Clara Winston. Copyright 1969 by Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc. Reprinted by permission of Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc.

Journey to Ixtlan, by Carlos Castañeda. Copyright 1972 by Carlos Castañeda. Reprinted by permission of Simon & Schuster, Inc., and by special authorization of Ned Brown and Carlos Castañeda.

The Last Tycoon, by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Reprinted by permission of Charles Scribner's Sons.

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 75-2263

ISBN 0-345-28466-6

This edition published by arrangement with Random House, Inc.

Manufactured in the United States of America.

First Ballantine Books Edition: October 1976
Sixth Printing: march 1979