A Funny Thing Happened on my Way to Freedom 

Contents

Acknowledgments

Prologue

1        Crushes and Crashes

2        Rock ’n’ Roll, Graduation, and Girls

3        Who Took My Prostitutes Away?

4        Deceit, Breakup, and a New Year’s Nightmare

5        Women and Children Only

6        A New Sheriff in Town         

7        Looking for a Way Out

8        My Merchant Marine Card

9        Bye-Bye, Havana

10      A Great Time in New Orleans?

11        Choosing between Life and Death

12        Right behind My Back

13        Sailing for Nicaragua

14        Midnight Fireworks, No Fiesta

15        Sitting Ducks

16        A Shower and a Change of Clothes

17        We Have to Get out of Here

18        Getting Weaker

19        Among the Dead and the Doomed

20        Ours or Theirs?

21        Hello,Miami; Good-Bye,Alice

22       Connecticut or Bust

Epilogue

Notes