A monumental oral biography filled with raucous joy, aching loss and terrible poignancy, Elvis & the Memphis Mafia is the first book to capture the King the man and the phenomenon in his full complexity. Through revealing interviews with three of Elvis s closest friends, who were also his protectors and rescuers, Nash achieves the first true mapping of Elvis s psyche.

Billy Smith Elvis s first cousin and the person he reputedly loved most after his own mother Marty Lacker best man at his wedding and foreman of the Memphis Mafia, the King s handpicked group of gatekeepers and...