TRIUMPHAL ENTRY Author:THOMAS BAIRD Neal Brewster and Ned Bates are scarcely more than casual friends when Ned, bold experimenter in the at and living, takes the young, desperately confused Neal in hand. To save him from the domination of his beautiful and possessive mother and her aging admirer, Ned launches Neal on a bizarre journey. The mad trip covers half the world and plun... more »ges him into strange adventures and develops in him powers to influence others and a gift for life beyound his or Ned's wildest calculations.« less