A True Biography The author, a private detective, found himself caught in the tentacles of the Octopus, Mr. Howard E. Saft, a wheeler-dealer of national and international affairs. Mr. Phelan was retained by Mr. Saft as Jimmy Hoffa's bodyguard during secret meetings in St. Louis, MO and Washington, D.C. with Wilbur Mills, chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, and Mills's associates who were planning to get rid of President Nixon and International Teamster President, Fitzsimmons. From a courier of million dollar political campaign contributions to a man with a contract out for him and running for his life because he knows too much, Tom Phelan has seen it all and now tells it all. -- All information contained in this biography is taken from daily memos, audiotapes and documents from confidential sources.
