Some color fading and tears on book jacket Slight fixing on book ledge Doubleday & Co, Inc, 1982 book club edition, 565 pages On a stormy Texas night in 1950, the world was ripe with promise for three inseparable boyhood friends. Each possessed a talent for winning that made success appear inevitable. Remarkable good looks, piercing intelli-gence, and charm were their individual credentials. Then something unex-pected-and tragic-happened. The three tried to forget this dark interlude in their young lives and each set out to ascend his own summit. But as they climbed they carried the secret —and it held the potential to destroy them all. CELEBRITY is the kind of stunning experience that readers worldwide have come to expect from Thomas Thompson. Just as he did with his blockbuster bestsellers, Blood and Money and Serpentine, Thompson has written a book that seizes you on the opening page and holds you in its power until the shattering conclusion. CELEBRITY is a knockout of a first novel by one of America's most acclaimed storytellers.