As the book opens, a group of private investigators in Brazil kidnaps an American named Patrick Lanigan, a former Biloxi, Miss., lawyer who stole $90 million from his firm, and avoided capture for more than four years. Patrick changed his looks and didn’t live that opulent life style of a millionaire as they thought he would be. By the time the F.B.I found out that private investigator had caught Patrick, he was half-dead, there was no mercy on him. Patrick’s body had burns all over where they tortured him. After the F.B.I frighten ....