Nathan Zuckerman Timeline and Summary

Zuckerman remembers idolizing the Swede as a child.
He remembers running into the Swede in New York City for the New York Mets vs. the Houston Astros game in 1985.
In 1995 he gets a letter from the Swede wanting to take him out to dinner and talk to him.
He has dinner with the Swede.
A few months later he attends his 45th high school reunion and learns the Swede is dead and that his daughter is the "Rimrock Bomber."
He begins imagining how life must have been for the Swede beneath the surface.
Then he does some research and writes the Swede's story as a novel.
He begins telling the readers about what he's written.