CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction -- Thrills -- Murdered Souls,Conspiratorial Cabals -- The Manchurian Candidate -- Stealth, Sexuality, and Cult Statusin The Manchurian Candidateand Seconds -- The Train -- Action and Abstraction in Ronin -- Politics -- Late Frankenheimer/Political Frankenheimer -- John Frankenheimer's"War on Terror" -- The Burning Season -- Pictures and Prizes -- Families -- Crashing In -- Walking the Linewith the Fille Fatale -- Live TV, Filmed Theater,and the New Hollywood -- Ashes, Ashes -- Secrets -- An American in Paris -- Shot from the Sky -- Frankenheimer and theScience Fiction/Horror Film -- The Fixer -- Jonah -- JOHN FRANKENHEIMER'SDIRECTORIAL CAREER: -- WORKS CITED AND CONSULTED -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX.