Allen Chase, twice married and divorced, escort and confidant of such beauties as Rhonda Fleming, Hedy Lamarr and Ann Miller, has worked and played away from the glare of publicity, a circumstance that makes his story, finally told, especially intriguing. He hs been induced to write this book by his desire to share what he feels may be the capstone of his career, the processing and utilizing of an energy source that will make the United States totally free of a humiliating dependence on foreign oil. Allen Chase has strong opinions on how the government conducts its domestic and foreign affairs and voices grave misgivings regarding the role that some minority groups play in the influencing of those policies. His impeccable academic credentials, U.C.L.A., with post graduate work at the London School of Economics give a legitimacy to financial adventures that demonstrate his ability to balance sound fiscal judgement against the possible rewards and penalties of braving untried commercial frontiers. This is the saga of an independent man whose exploits at the highest levels of international finance are daily affecting our lives and whose energy plans, many revealed for the first time in these pages, could well change the whole course of United States domestic and foreign policy. Son of Edward Tilden Chase, investment banker, newspaper publisher, "optimist and entrepreneur", and direct descendant of Declaration of Independence signer Samuel Chase, Allen Chase inherited the individualism and zest for living of both those forebears.

Bishop, George (As told to)