More than 40 years after his premature death, the mystique of Mario Lanza continues. He remains a legendary figure, a crossover icon embraced and remembered by an entire generation for bridging the gap between popular and classical music, the acknowledged inspiration of today's Three Tenors. Bessette tells his story with a novelist's eye for the inherent tragedy of Lanza's brief life, the contradictory facets of his personality, his passion for life, and his self-destructiveness. HARDCOVER.

Roland L. Bessette, an attorney specializing in labor and medical malpractice defense, has a degree in journalism from Wayne State University and a juris doctorate from Detroit College of Law. He lives in Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan, with his wife, Phyllis, a physician.