For a Day or a Lifetime Book Excerpt

In anticipation of the 10th anniversary edition of Jack Parker's For a Day or a Lifetime: The Forte Story, publisher Knopf Doubleday is making the worldwide best-seller's first chapter available online.

From the publisher:

"After his Pulitzer Prize-winning first book--Invasion: The Inside Story of the Saoshyant Incursion, in which the well-known Seattle newspaper editor detailed his frightening trip to the stars while captive aboard the Saoshyant mother ship, along with many other abductees and a handful of Earth's heroes who ended the invasion and saved humanity--Jack Parker called on the connections he'd made with Forte heroes on that cosmic journey and set out to write the definitive history of what some have called the greatest super-hero team of all time.

"With unprecedented access to all living Forte heroes, Parker went far beyond the published accounts, tirelessly researching and interviewing over a five-year period, delving deep into the hidden details and eyewitness accounts of the events, triumphs and tragedies that shaped the story of the extraordinary group of all-too-human men and women whose actions defined heroism and delivered mankind from extinction, again and again. From the great, epic battles to the quiet--and often more devastating--personal ones, his book chronicled the team from its unlikely inception to its rise to worldwide fame. It introduced us to each of these heroes in ways we'd never known, and amazed us with how much these mythic legends were so like us. It was an unflinching, unrelenting odyssey through all the years of Forte, from the victories to the crushing personal failures to the unbearable losses. It was as close as any of us would ever come to being on the team ourselves.

"It's been ten years since the remarkable book first became one of the best-selling non-fiction books of all time. Its momentum was rekindled along the way with its adaptation into the ground-breaking HBO mini-series, produced by Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, that swept the Emmy Awards and set DVD sales records around the globe. And now, to celebrate the milestone, Knopf Doubleday is proudly releasing the 10-year anniversary edition of For a Day or a Lifetime, with a new introduction by the author, an all-new full-color photo section that includes never-before-seen candid pictures provided by the Forte heroes themselves, and an additional final chapter written by Parker covering the newest incarnation of Forte, who've picked up where the original Forte legend left off, and ties together the two eras to show that the legacy of selfless heroism and dedication to the betterment of mankind lives on, more than twenty years since the Forte dream was born."

The first chapter is available in PDF format through this site. To download, click here:

For a Day or a Lifetime: The Forte Story
Chapter One