The Magic Christian

The Magic Christian
By the same author
FLASH AND FILIGREE
TERRY SOUTHERN
RANDOM HOUSE NEW YORK
Second Printing
© Copyright, 1959, 1960, by Terry Southern All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in New York by Random House, Inc., and simultaneously in Toronto, Canada, by Random House of Canada, Limited. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 60-7681 Manufactured in the United States of America by H. Wolff Book Mfg. Co., Inc.
TO HENRY AND DIG
Little man whip a big man every time if the little man’s in the right and keeps a’comin’.
Motto of The Texas Rangers
Although this book was basically shaped by certain events, and by values otherwise manifest, over the past few years, it is not, in any strict sense, a historical novel—and, more particularly, the characters within it are not to be identified with any actual persons, either living or dead.
The Magic Christian