When in June 1968, clad in black leather, a nervous Elvis Presley made his now legendary '68 Comeback Special, Alan Fortas was one of the five friends asked to be on
stage with him. Fortas ultimately spent nearly 12 years working for Elvis, having been asked to join his fraternity of bodyguards and close buddies that came to be known as the Memphis
Mafia back in 1958. He chronicles the time he spent living, traveling, and playing hard with Elvis during that time, during which he watched Elvis become increasingly
disillusioned with the endless stream of movies he was forced to act in, saw him become increasingly reliant on drugs, and witnessed Elvis's colorful sex life. The only other
memoir of Elvis to offer such genuine inside knowlege and intimacy is Elvis and the Memphis Mafia, by three other member of his bodyguard fraternity, which Entertainment
Weekly called "an essential addition to the Presley [library]." Fortas' collaborator Alanna Nash is well-known to Presley fans, as she co-authored Elvis and the
Memphis Mafia, and well as authoring The Colonel, the definitive biography of Colonel Tom Parker.
