The Partner Learn English through story level 3

chapter 1

pontipora brazil

they found him in pontipora

a pleasant little town in brazil

on the border of paraguay

he lived alone in a small house on rua

tiradentes

and drove a red 1983 volkswagen

he was thinner

his skin and hair were darker

and his nose and chin were different

they considered taking him quickly

but decided to wait

when he went downtown they followed him

and took photos

they listened as he talked to a clerk in

the market

his portuguese was excellent

almost without an accent

they watched as he ran along rua

tiredentes and into the countryside

he was serious about his running

and this pleased them

danilo would simply run into their arms

guy was from washington dc

and had been hired to find danilo

he’d been searching for him for four

years

and had spent 3.5 million dollars

all for nothing

but now he’d found him

osmar and his brazilian friends didn’t

know why guy wanted danilo

but they guessed that he’d disappeared

and taken a lot of money

they made large copies of the photos and

put them on the wall of the small house

they were staying in

they studied them carefully

was it really him

osmar wanted to take him now

but guy said they’d wait

then

on the fourth day

danilo raced to the airport

parked his car

got on a small plane to sao paulo

and was gone

they waited

watching the red volkswagen and the

arriving planes

osmar was confident that danilo would

return and they’d get him

he returned on the fifth day

and everyone was happy

every day danilo ran his 10 kilometer

course

leaving at almost the same time

on the eighth day when danilo came over

the top of a hill

a small car with a flat tire was

blocking the road its trunk was open

the young driver pretended to be

surprised at the sight of the thin

runner

the man used danilo’s keys to open the

door to his house

he collected all the computer disks

he went through the files on the desk

but couldn’t find what he was looking

for

five minutes after the door opened a

silent signal was sent and a phone call

was made

it informed the person on the other end

that the house had been entered by a

stranger

the directions in the guard’s file were

clear

do not call the police

call a number in rio

and ask for eva miranda

ava put the phone down

the message meant that danilo was

missing

she told herself to relax

she’d need to be calm to do what she had

to do

she took a file from a locked drawer and

read the sheet of instructions again

danilo’s instructions were general

the details were left to her

she divided the money

she’d made the list of imaginary

companies in which the money was hidden

danilo had never seen her list

as a lawyer she worked with

international businessmen

and understood foreign money and banking

she knew how to move money around the

world

and danilo had taught her more

at the moment the money was in two

places

a bank in panama

and one in bermuda

because european banks were closed now

she’d keep the money in the caribbean

for a few hours

she faxed instructions to move it out of

panama and bermuda and into banks on

grand cayman and in the bahamas

as time passed and there was no phone

call from danilo

she became more concerned

he wouldn’t disappear without telling

her first

but if they’d found him

they wouldn’t wait long before they

tried to make him talk

that was what he feared the most

that was why she had to run

she went to a pay phone in the entrance

of her office building and called the

office of the fbi in biloxi mississippi

asking for agent joshua cutter

when he came to the phone she asked

are you in charge of the patrick lanigan

investigation

she knew he was

there was a pause

then he said

yes

who is this

i’m calling from brazil she said

chapter two

paraguay

danilo was lying on a board with holes

in it

ropes through the holes and around his

ankles knees waist chest and wrists held

him tightly against it

a brazilian doctor stepped into the room

and pushed a needle into his arm

the drug ran into danilo’s body

guy entered the room alone

hello patrick he said

danilo knew that his quiet life on rua

tiredentes was finished

he wasn’t danilo silva now

he was patrick

again for four years he’d wondered how

he’d feel if they caught him

now he knew

he was extremely frightened

can you hear me patrick guy asked

we know who you are

you’re patrick lanigan from biloxi

mississippi

you’re a lawyer

you have a wife and a daughter age six

you’ve been missing now for over four

years

that’s me

tell me patrick

did you watch your own funeral

yes

i watched it

where did you hide after your funeral

here and there

where’s the money patrick

guy asked with a smile

what money

the money you took with you

oh

that money

patrick said

then he lost consciousness

more men entered the room

they cut his clothes off and shaved

several parts of his body

then they taped small metal plates to

the shaved skin

wires connected to the metal

went across his body to a box in guy’s

hand

patrick told himself that they weren’t

going to kill him

he’d imagined this situation a thousand

times and prayed it would never happen

but he’d always known it would

he always knew they were out there

searching for him

he closed his eyes tried to breathe

regularly and struggled to control his

thoughts

i don’t know where the money is

i don’t know where the money is

he repeated silently

until today he’d called eva every day

between four

guy held the box close to patrick’s face

see this

he said when i push this lever

electricity will pass through the wires

to the metal plates on your skin

now where’s the money

i don’t know

i swear

guy pushed the lever and electricity

shot through patrick’s body burning his

skin

he closed his eyes and mouth tightly

making an effort not to scream

but he stopped trying after a second

and screamed loudly

tell me where the money is

and you’ll leave this room alive

we’ll take you back to pontapura

we won’t tell the fbi

guy paused

if however you refuse to tell me where

the money is

then you’ll never leave this room alive

do you understand patrick

yes

i swear i don’t know

if i knew i’d tell you

guy pushed the lever down

i don’t know

patrick screamed in pain i swear i don’t

know

guy waited a few seconds for patrick to

recover

then he asked calmly

where’s the money

i don’t know

patrick’s screams filled the house

they left him alone for a few minutes to

suffer and think about what would happen

next

his skin was red from the heat and

electricity

blood ran from under the tape on his

chest where the metal was burning into

his flesh

the ropes around his wrists and ankles

had rubbed away his skin

then guy returned alone

and sat on a chair next to patrick

where were you during the funeral he

asked

patrick relaxed a little

finally there was a question that wasn’t

about money

maybe if he cooperated

they wouldn’t torture him again

i was hiding in biloxi he said

of course

and you watched your own funeral

yes

i was in a tree

where did you go after the funeral

guy asked

to mobile alabama

you changed your appearance

yes

i

guy shouted and the other americans

rushed in

the brazilian doctor pushed another

needle roughly into patrick’s arm and

left

the tape recorder was turned on

guy stood

ready to move the lever if patrick

didn’t talk

the money arrived by wire to your law

firm’s bank account in nassau

on march 26 1992

45 days after your death

you were there patrick

pretending to be someone else

we have photos taken by the bank’s

hidden camera

a short time after the money arrived it

was gone

sent by wire to a bank in malta

you stole it patrick

now

where is it

tell me

and you’ll live

patrick looked at guy

then at the lever

and closed his eyes tightly

i swear i don’t know what you’re talking

about he said

patrick

patrick

guy pushed the lever down

patrick’s scream was so loud and

terrible that osmar and the brazilians

in the yard stopped their conversation

a hundred meters away a brazilian

guarding the house offered a prayer

the apartment in kuritiba was near the

airport

ava told the taxi driver to wait while

she went inside

she knew exactly what to do

she went to the locked file cabinet

opened the three drawers

took out the financial records and put

them in a suitcase to take with her

danilo couldn’t know where his papers

were

then she quickly left and was driven to

a small hotel downtown

in her room she unpacked her small fax

machine

and connected it to the phone line

the asian and zurich banks were open now

soon the bed was covered with sheets of

instructions to move the money

she was tired

but she couldn’t sleep

danilo had said they’d come looking for

her

she couldn’t go home

her thoughts weren’t on money

but on him

was he alive

if so how much was he suffering

how much had he told them

she wiped her eyes and began to arrange

the papers

chapter 3

return to north america

mrs stefano was going crazy

several neighbors had called about the

fbi agents parked in front of their

house

she didn’t care what her husband did at

the office

she did however care a lot about what

the neighbors might think

she went to bed at midnight

at 3 a.m the doorbell rang

and jack who had fallen asleep on the

sofa answered it

four agents were there

and he quickly recognized hamilton james

assistant director of the fbi

the men went to stefano’s living room

and sat down

jane

said we’re working on the lanigan case

we’ve been informed that your people

have him

is this true

no

stefano remained calm

i’m prepared to arrest you

what for

stefano asked

hiding a person wanted by the government

lack of cooperation with the

government’s investigation

we’ll include

anything we need to

i just want to put you in jail

then we’ll arrest the rest of your firm

and your clients

we’ll take care of the indictments later

depending on whether or not we get

lanigan

do you understand

yes i think so

where’s lanigan

james asked

i want him

now

stefano thought for a moment

in these circumstances cooperation

sounded like a good idea

if patrick was given a choice of life in

prison

he might make the money appear

all right

give me 24 hours and i’ll give you

lanigan

and you stop threatening to arrest me

agreed

i need to know where to pick him up

send a plane to asuncion paraguay

he’d better be okay

if he has any marks on his body you’ll

be responsible

james and his agents left

stefano called guy

is he talking

what do you know he asked

a little

the money still exists he doesn’t know

where it is

it’s controlled by a woman in rio

chapter 4

biloxi

since patrick’s disappearance the

remaining four partners in his law firm

had had problems

they drank too much alcohol and argued a

lot

they’d buried patrick on february 11

1992

but six weeks later he somehow stole

their money

money they’d already spent on new homes

big boats and vacation houses in the

caribbean

now they were desperate to get their

money back

bogan and vetrano were at their desks

when agent cutter entered their office

we have patrick he said

the two partners were shocked

how’d you find him are you sure it’s him

vetrano asked

we’re sure

we didn’t find him he was given to us

do you know a man named jack stefano

they both whispered

yes

do you work with him

they both shook their heads

you’re lucky

stefano’s man found patrick tortured him

almost killed him

and then gave him to us

what about the money bogan asked

we don’t know anything about it

we’ll watch stefano

maybe he’ll lead us to the money

the toronto and bogan stared at the

table

thinking

patrick had stolen 90 million dollars

too much money for one person to spend

there must be millions left

the money will be easy to find

vetrano said

somebody was buried in patrick’s grave

patrick killed him it’s clearly a death

penalty case in mississippi

patrick will talk to avoid the death

penalty

cutter looked at his watch

i have to go he said

i have to give trudy the good news

when patrick was killed in a car crash

with no witnesses

his wife trudy received 2.5 million

dollars from his life insurance

she immediately bought an expensive

house

and an expensive car

she was excited about her good fortune

lance trudy’s boyfriend

opened the door when cutter knocked

agent cutter fbi i’ve come to see trudy

she’s in there

lance said point

before the press conference qatar and

morris mast the u.s attorney for the

district

met with raymond sweeney the local

sheriff

and t.l parish the local district

attorney

to decide what to do about patrick

we have two big mysteries

two questions that must be answered

parish said

the big one is

money where is it

what did he do with it

can we recover it and give it to its

owners

the second mystery is who’s buried in

patrick’s grave

only patrick can tell us that

and he won’t unless he’s forced to

he must be scared morris

parchman’s a frightening place

patrick won’t want to go to parchman

everyone in the room knew about the

horrors of the local prison

patrick would realize that if he talked

he might be sent to a government prison

instead

one that wasn’t so terrible

parish and mast made a plan to work

together

the fbi would continue its search for

the money

the locals would concentrate on the

murder

mast and parish went together to the

press conference

mast spoke first

we are pleased to announce the capture

of mr patrick s lanigan formerly of

biloxi

he’s alive and well

and we have him in a hospital

he paused

and then told them the details of

patrick’s capture

he didn’t mention that the fbi wasn’t

responsible for finding patrick

parish promised a quick indictment for

murder

patrick’s story was the big news that

day

lanigan back from the dead the

newspapers reported on the front page

there were stories about patrick’s

capture and trudy’s request for a

divorce

the law firm partners were suing patrick

for the return of their 30 million

dollars

northern case insurance was suing trudy

for the return of their money

benny arithia was suing patrick for the

return of his 60 million dollars

and monarch sierra insurance wanted to

recover the 4 million dollars they paid

the law firm when patrick stole their

money

the story was also on all the tv

stations

cnn chapter five

the base hospital

patrick walked down the hospital hall

with the help of luis his nurse

his skin was burned in four places and

his whole body ached

he stopped and looked out a window

yes

he’d admitted that the money still

existed

with electricity running through his

body

he’d told them what happened to the

money after he stole it

he couldn’t remember the last part of

his torture

he’d been near death

he’d called her name

but was it to himself

or aloud

where was she now

when they returned to his room

luis closed the door and curtains and

took out a camera

luis had agreed to take the photos

when patrick offered him five hundred

dollars

start there

patrick told him pointing to the bottom

of the bed

get the whole body

including the face

luis did as he was told and worked

quickly

when he finished he took the film to a

photoshop

sandy mcdermott had read reports about

the discovery of his law school friend

with great interest

he was busy in his new orleans office

when his secretary announced that a

woman from brazil was waiting to see him

my name’s leah

she said quietly

patrick sent me

sandy noticed that she didn’t smile and

her eyes were tired

have you spoken to him since

no

not since he was taken

i want to hire you to be patrick’s

lawyer

i’m

available sandy had a lot of questions

but he knew he couldn’t ask them now

you might be threatened by some very

nasty people she told him

who

the people chasing patrick

i think they’ve caught him he said

yes

but they don’t have the money

i understand

he said

so the money hadn’t been spent

that wasn’t surprising

but how much was left

where is the money he asked

you can’t ask that question she said

what do you want me to do for him

on the plane sandy and leah didn’t talk

much

just before landing in miami she said

i won’t see you again for a few days

i have to keep moving

patrick will give you instructions

and he and i will communicate through

you

be careful

when people learn that you’re his lawyer

you’ll attract the attention of the

people who are looking for me

who are they he asked

patrick will tell you

you have the money don’t you

i can’t answer that question

when they landed she shook his hand and

said

tell patrick i’m fine

then she disappeared into the crowd

when he landed in san juan

sandy went to the navy base to visit

patrick

the two old friends hadn’t seen each

other for six years

patrick sat in his bed in the dark room

he kept a sheet over his body

sandy studied his face

it was thin

and the chin and nose were different

he looked like someone else

but his eyes and voice were the same

thanks for coming patrick said

sure

sandy

replied she said to tell you she’s fine

he added

patrick closed his eyes and said a

prayer of thanks

then he was silent

sandy sat and waited for his friend

he was alive

and right now nothing else mattered

after a time sandy wanted to talk

a lot of people are waiting for you back

in biloxi he said

trudy filed for divorce two days ago

the grand jury has indicted you for

capital murder

i know

said patrick

cnn has kept me informed

sandy paused and then asked

when do you want to talk

patrick rolled to his side and looked at

the wall

they tortured me sandy he said quietly

they taped wires to my body and gave me

electric shocks until i talked

here

look

he lifted his left arm so sandy could

inspect the burn marks

they kept asking about the money

i’m afraid i told them about the girls

andy

the lawyer

leah

yes

i’m almost certain i told him about leah

at six o’clock the next morning

patrick’s doctor entered his room

he checked his wounds and said

you’re ready to go

they have good doctors waiting for you

where you’re going

then he left

30 minutes later

agent brent myers from the biloxi office

walked in

good morning patrick i just talked to

your doctor you’re going home tomorrow

and i’ve got orders to take you back

we’ll leave in the morning on a special

air force plane to biloxi

see you early in the morning

myers left

next luis arrived with coffee and fruit

he put a package under patrick’s sheet

and asked if he needed anything else

no

patrick said

thanking him softly

an hour later sandy arrived

i want you to go home immediately

patrick said

and take this with you

he handed sandy the package

sandy sat down

opened it and looked through the photos

who did this to you he asked

whose prisoner am i

the fbi’s

so

i think the fbi did it to me

my own government found me caught me

tortured me and is now taking me back

look at what they’ve done to me

you should sue them for this

sandy said

for millions and quickly

here’s the plan

i’m leaving for biloxi in the morning

we should file our lawsuit late this

afternoon so it’ll be in the paper

tomorrow

tell the press

i’ve marked two photos

give them to the reporters for the coast

paper

the one that’s read by the people who

will be on my jury

people will feel sorry for me

an american citizen tortured by the fbi

sandy studied patrick’s face

it wasn’t really the fbi was it he asked

no

patrick said it wasn’t

i was delivered to the fbi by some

people whose names i don’t know

they’d been chasing me for a long time

and they’re still waiting out there

somewhere

does the fbi know about them

yes

patrick said

he paused

be careful

i’ve hidden a lot of money sandy

there are people who’ll do anything to

find it

how much of the money is chapter six

return to biloxi

newspaper tv and radio reporters waited

in the courthouse

while sandy filed the lawsuit

they listened carefully as he calmly

informed them that his client was suing

the fbi for physical damage and torture

sandy answered questions and then

reached into his case and removed two

large color photos

this is what they did to patrick he said

the cameras moved closer

this is your government

fbi agents at work ladies and gentlemen

torturing an american citizen

everyone was shocked

almost half of the six o’clock news was

about sandy and the photos

the other half was about patrick’s

return the next day

cnn played the story hourly

hamilton james was at his club when he

saw the news

he wasn’t happy

the fbi sued by patrick lanigan

he excused himself and went to his

office

he made a phone call

and two agents went immediately to jack

stefano’s front door

stefano had watched the reports and

wasn’t surprised to see the fbi

he thought it was funny that the fbi was

being blamed for his men’s work

he also thought it was a good idea of

patrick’s

good evening he said politely

fbi the first man said mr james would

like to see you

why

we don’t know the second man said he

told us to find you and take you to his

office can you come with us

stefano was angry but he reminded

himself that there were already criminal

charges against him because of the

lanigan case

a little more cooperation might help

give me five minutes he said

when stefano entered his office james

dropped the thick report he was looking

at it was almost midnight

what did you do to that boy down there

i don’t know

i guess the brazilian boys got a little

rough

he’ll live

this is serious business okay jack

these allegations are terrible

right now the whole country is looking

at those pictures and wondering why we

tortured an american citizen

who did it

the doctor gave patrick pills to make

him comfortable for the flight

and a file with his medical records

patrick thanked him

he shook hands with luis and said

goodbye

agent meyers was waiting outside the

door with four navy policemen

if you behave i won’t put chains on you

now he said

when we land though i have no choice

thanks patrick said

his legs ached and his knees were weak

but he held his head high and his back

straight as he walked down the hall and

out to the waiting van

as the van drove slowly across the base

patrick thought about his life in

pontapura

his home now

he wondered what jail they’d put him in

in biloxi

then he had an idea

he opened the file and quickly read the

doctor’s notes

patient should remain hospitalized for

at least another week the doctor had

written

this would keep him out of jail

he had to tell sandy to arrange a

comfortable private room for him

i need to make a phone call he said

when the van stopped he and myers went

to a small office and faxed the doctor’s

instructions to sandy

then they climbed the steps into the air

force plane

the plane landed at kiesler air force

base outside biloxi

patrick was surprised there wasn’t a

crowd waiting for him

he wanted the press to see him with

chains on his legs and wrists

but they’d been forbidden to come near

the plane

only agent cutter sheriff sweeney two

air force officers

and sandy were there

hello patrick welcome home

the sheriff said

hello raymond

patrick answered with a smile

they knew each other well

cutters started to introduce himself

but as soon as patrick heard fbi he

turned to sandy

they all got into the waiting van

patrick was glad the chase was over

lots of problems were ahead

but for now he could ignore what was

behind him

patrick had never been able to

completely relax and enjoy his new life

not even the money could calm his fears

he’d always known that this day would

come

he’d stolen too much money

he looked out the window as he wrote

along

cd2

chapter 7

patrick’s first appearance

cutter and ted grimshaw chief

investigator for the district carefully

examined the evidence from patrick’s

death

there wasn’t much

no one suspected murder when patrick

died

so there was no effort to gather

physical clues

there were ten large color photos of the

burned out chevy blazer

after the car burned there was very

little left of the body in it

and that was buried

so now they had no idea who died in the

crash

patrick had spent that weekend in an old

cabin near the edge of the forest

outside biloxi

sunday night february 9 1992

he called to tell his wife he was

leaving the cabin

he stopped at verhall’s country store

and bought 50 liters of gasoline

an hour later patrick’s chevy blazer was

found burning at the bottom of a steep

hill 12 kilometers down the road

the fire was so hot that they couldn’t

rescue the driver

they read the license plate

and at 3 30 am

trudy received the call that made her a

widow

the next day they discovered a shoe near

the blazer

when they showed it to trudy

she recognized it as patrick’s and cried

his funeral was the following day

dr hayani was happy to sit and chat with

patrick

he enjoyed being close to this patient

who was in all the news reports

he encouraged patrick to talk about his

experience

the torture was something i could never

accurately describe

patrick said after an hour

sleep is impossible

i hear voices then i smell my flesh

burning

and then i wake up

and it’s not getting any better

they’re still out there

still after me

i can’t sleep

i don’t want to sleep

i’ll get tortured again

he paused

doc

i need to stay here as long as i can

they’ll want to put me in jail

in a cell with other criminals

i can’t live like that

but why do they want to move you

it’s pressure doc

they have to slowly increase for the

third day

patrick didn’t wash his hair or shave

the world was waiting to see him today

he wore the same clothes he’d worn every

day

he didn’t wear socks

he wanted people to see the rope marks

just above his ankles

sandy arrived at 10 and gave patrick a

pair of dark glasses he’d requested

patrick sat on the edge of his bed and

tried to breathe slowly

i never thought this day would come

never

he said

i’ll do all the talking sandy said

just try and relax

sheriff sweeney knocked and entered with

his assistance

patrick put on the dark glasses and was

led out of the building to a waiting car

sandy stayed on his left

gently holding him by the elbow

patrick looked out the window as they

drove through biloxi

and noticed the changes since he’d left

he started to relax

then they turned onto main street

and he was anxious again

in the middle of the old shops and

stores was the large white building

where he’d been a partner in bougain

rapley vetrano haverack and lanigan

attorneys

the car stopped in front of the

courthouse where a crowd of reporters

photographers and cameramen was waiting

patrick lowered his head and tried to

hide among the sheriff’s assistants

they walked him quickly into the

courthouse as the press called out

questions

patrick what’s it like to be home

where’s the money

who burned in the car

sandy and sheriff sweeney stayed with

patrick in the jury room

are you okay patrick sweeney asked

yes

sure raymond thanks

he sounded scared and his hands and

knees shook

there was a knock on the door and a

pretty girl entered and said

welcome back patrick

judge husky would like to meet with you

you’ll be here in a few minutes

she and sweeney left and closed the door

finally patrick was alone with his

lawyer

a couple of things

first

leah will contact you soon

i’ve written her a long letter and i’d

like you to give it to her

okay

second

there’s a small machine for finding bug

crowded court rooms were not uncommon

for trials

but no one could remember such a crowded

room for a simple first appearance

the press had taken the best seats

many lawyers were there just to see

patrick

the papers had been full of stories

about him for four days

the torture story had increased their

curiosity

charles bogan and doug vetrano sat

together

they’d wanted to sit in the front row to

make eye contact with patrick and

threaten him quietly

but they were in the fifth

a few other lawyers had come to give

patrick their support

escape

was a common dream of many small town

lawyers

at least patrick had had the courage to

chase the dream

other people were present who’d hardly

known patrick

but now suddenly claimed to have been

his friends

the door opened and sheriff sweeney

entered holding patrick by the elbow

sandy followed

patrick walked slowly head down across

the room to the defendant’s table

he sat down

his shoulders low

chin down

sandy put his arm on his shoulder

the door opened again and t.l parrish

the district attorney entered alone

he walked to his table next to patrick’s

and sat beside sheriff sweeney

behind him were agents joshua cutter

brent myers and two others

judge husky entered and sat down

state against patrick s lanigan would

the defendant please rise

patrick slowly stood

mr lanigan i’m holding a copy of an

indictment against you by the grand jury

it states that you murdered a human

being named unknown

have you read this indictment and

discussed it with your attorney

yes sir patrick announced

what is your plea

not guilty

your plea of not guilty is accepted you

may sit down

he paused

any questions from the attorneys

the lawyers said nothing

parish stood and said your honor

we would like to put the accused in jail

as soon as possible

as you know he’s at the base hospital

now

i just talked to his

sandy’s secretary was cutting out his

photo and the story of yesterday’s court

appearance from the new orleans paper

when the phone call came

she found him immediately

it was lea pirege

she said hello and asked if he’d had his

office checked for bugs

sandy said yes

she was in a hotel room a few blocks

away

and suggested that they meet there

sandy was excited to hear her voice

and would do whatever she wanted

leah greeted him with a smile and poured

coffee for both of them

how is he she asked

he’s getting better the doctor says

he’ll be fine

how bad was it she asked quietly

pretty bad

he reached into his case removed a file

and handed it to her

she looked at the photos and cried

poor patrick

she said to herself

poor baby

i’m sorry sandy said

here’s a letter from patrick

she finished crying and poured more

coffee

are any of the injuries permanent

she asked

the doctor thinks they’ll get better

with time

mentally how is he

he’s okay

he doesn’t sleep much and has bad dreams

but he’s getting better

i guess he’s lucky to be alive

he always said they wouldn’t kill him

she paused and changed the subject

let’s talk about his divorce

she stood walked to a drawer removed a

thick file and placed it in front of

sandy

did you see trudy on tv

she asked

yes

patrick hates her

she’s a bad person

and she was unfaithful to him the whole

time they were married

it’s all in this file

the last year they were together

patrick hired an investigator to watch

her

there are photographs of her lover lance

maxa

coming and going from patrick’s house

when he was away

there are also pictures of lance and

trudy sitting by patrick’s pool

without clothes

sandy took the file and looked through

it until he found the photographs

he smiled

this will help

patrick wants the divorce you understand

he won’t fight it

chapter 8

stefano’s story

stefano’s lawyer advised him to accept

the fbi’s arrangement

the criminal charges against him would

be dropped

and there would be no charges against

his clients

he would tell the fbi everything he knew

about the search for and capture of

patrick lanigan

stefano had easily persuaded benny

arithia

that the fbi was going to arrest him

soon

it was more difficult to persuade paul

adderson at monarch sierra insurance

and frank jill at northern case

insurance

james sent agents to both offices to ask

questions about the search for and

capture of patrick lanigan

both called stefano by noon

and told him to fully cooperate with the

fbi

for four years stefano had worked with

these men

he’d earned almost a million dollars

he’d spent another 2.5 million of his

clients money

and he could claim success

they’d found lanigan

they hadn’t found the 90 million

but it hadn’t been spent

there was a chance of recovering it

benny arithia came to see stefano in his

office

he’d listened to the torture tape three

times

he was certain patrick had told what he

knew

and it wasn’t enough

patrick knew he’d someday be caught

that’s why he’d placed the money with

the girl who hid it from everyone

including patrick

it was a great plan

how much will it take to find her he

asked stefano

i’d guess a hundred thousand with no

guarantees

we have no idea where she is

but we know where she’s from

and we know she’ll probably go to biloxi

will the fbi know we’re still looking

no

and if you find her

we’ll make her talk

stefano said

and they smiled

stefano honestly planned to tell most of

what he knew

he knew little

just the name of the brazilian lawyer

who had the money

now she disappeared

and he doubted the fbi would follow her

the money didn’t belong to them

and he wanted the fbi out of his life

mrs stefano was extremely anxious

stefano sat at a table in the fbi office

his lawyer beside him

what does your company do

asked underhill

lots of things stefano said

watch people get information find

missing persons

were you hired to find patrick lanigan

yes on march 28 1992

who hired you

benny arithia the man whose money was

stolen

what did you do after you were hired

i immediately flew to nassau in the

bahamas to meet with the manager of the

bank where the theft took place

why did arathia have an account outside

the u.s

it was 90 million dollars nobody wanted

the money to appear in a bank in biloxi

where did it come from

here in washington

the wire began at 9 30 on the morning of

march 26 1992

at 15 minutes after 10 it reached the

united bank where it sat for nine

minutes before it was wired to a bank in

malta

from there it was wired to panama

how did the money get wired out of the

bank

someone mr lanigan we think prepared

false wiring instructions from my

client’s lawyers his old firm

and re-rooted the money

on the morning the money was wired he

presented himself as doug vetrano one of

his partners

he had a perfect passport and driver’s

license and he knew all about the money

which was being wired from washington

he had a paper from the office giving

him permission to accept the money for

the firm

and then wire it to the bank in malta

the other partners of course thought he

was dead

they had no reason to suspect anyone was

after the money

the settlement which produced the 90

million was extremely secret and only a

few people knew exactly when or where

the money was wired

so you went to biloxi to look for clues

and you found that the law offices were

bugged

we did

we had two jobs

first to find mr lanigan and the money

and second to find out how he’d stolen

it

there were 22 bugs in the offices

in every phone in every office under

every desk

did you find out where the signals went

he asked

no

but i think he rented a boat he needed a

place to hide and listen to the

conversations

a boat is simple and safe benny arethea

had moved to the coast in 1985

as an officer of platte and rockland

a big defense contractor with a history

of over billing and false claims

one of their small divisions had

received a 990 million dollar navy

contract

and benny was responsible for it

he hated contracting with the government

and he hated living in biloxi

in 1988

he asked for a different job

and was denied

he studied the false claims act

this encouraged people to report over

billing in government contracts

then he went to charles bogan for help

filing a claim with the government

the lawsuit was filed in september of

1990

with the allegation that 600 million

dollars had been overbilled

if benny could prove this he’d receive

15 percent of that amount

and one third of that would go to the

law firm

bogan gave information to the press

and the company lost business

after a year

platt and rockland agreed to repay the

600 million dollars

benny got ready to receive his fortune

and bogan and the partners got ready to

spend theirs

then patrick disappeared

and so did their money

stefano’s next questioner was warren

when did your group form he asked

after we lost patrick in new york we

waited nothing happened

i’d met with benny arithia and he agreed

to pay a million dollars to finance the

search

then i met with people from monarch

sierra and northern cays

northern case had already paid 2.5

million to the widow

they couldn’t sue to get it back because

there wasn’t strong evidence he was

still alive

they agreed to give us half a million

monarch sierra carried the law firm’s

insurance protecting them from theft by

its employees and partners

they had to pay four million dollars to

the firm

and agreed to pay another million to

finance the surge

how was the money spent

on salaries travel rewards and the

services of my firm

not much is left

tell me about the rewards

we immediately offered a one hundred

thousand dollar reward for any

information about the disappearance of

chapter nine

the divorce

sweeney and grimshaw visited patrick

they photographed him and took his

fingerprints

then the two men joined qatar in his

office

where an fbi fingerprint man was waiting

for them

when pepper’s gun was found in patrick’s

cabin

grimshaw had taken fingerprints from it

the fingerprint man compared those with

patrick’s

several of these are perfect matches he

said

the gun was covered with lanigan’s

prince

certainly good news they thought

patrick demanded a different room for

all future meetings with his attorney

and dr hayani quickly made the necessary

arrangements

patrick also requested a wheelchair

a nurse pushed him to the room where

sandy was waiting

did you get the machine for finding bugs

patrick asked

it’ll be here in a few days

you should relax a little

you’ve lived in fear always looking over

your shoulder

but those days are over

they caught you

relax they’re still out there

they have me but not the money

and the money’s much more important

they won’t rest until they have it

the people who lost their money have

spent a fortune trying to find it

how do you know

who are they

there was a long pause

sit down patrick said

sandy removed the thick file leah had

given him four hours earlier

and patrick recognized it immediately

when did you see her he asked anxiously

this morning

she’s fine sends her love and says

nobody’s following her yet

she asked me to deliver this

patrick opened the envelope pulled out a

three-page letter and read it

sandy looked through the file and took

out pictures of trudy and lance

when patrick finished reading he said

i have another letter for her

then he saw the photos on the table

good work isn’t it

it’s amazing i’ve never seen so much

proof in a divorce case

well

i learned about lance after we’d been

married almost two years

trudy was going to have a baby so i said

nothing

but a year later i started gathering

evidence

i wasn’t sure when i’d need it but i

knew the marriage was over

i left town every chance i could

sandy left and riddleton went to see

trudy and lance

he told them patrick knew she’d had a

lover

trudy acted shocked

do you deny it

riddleton asked

absolutely she said

of course

added lance the man’s lying

patrick hired investigators riddleton

told them

handing them one of the reports

trudy and lance looked at each other

they’d been caught

but they weren’t ashamed

can these investigators talk in court

lance asked

we’re not going to court riddleton said

why not trudy asked

because of these

riddleton put the photos in front of

them

they were shocked

trudy started to cry

he’s not getting my daughter

she said

relax riddleton said he doesn’t want the

kid he’s not the father

they both thought about that well

riddleton got out a report

he had a dna test done

he looked at lance and added

congratulations

trudy was angry

so what do we do

it’s simple

you give up your right to his money and

property and he gives you the divorce

and the kid

but i’m going to lose everything she

said

look what he’s done to me

i got two and a half million when he

died and now the insurance company wants

to take it all back

can i sue him for mental cruelty

no

look it’s very simple

you get the divorce and the kid and

patrick keeps whatever money is out

there

and everything is private

if you don’t agree

he’ll give the reports and photos to the

press

where do i sign

she asked

it was past time to leave for the day

but dr hayani stopped to see his famous

patient

welcome to my office patrick said

he was sitting at a small table which

was now his desk

a pile of legal papers was in one corner

nice hyanni said

how are you doing

i’m fine he answered as he always did

patrick sat on the edge of his bed and

looked at his doctor

can i tell you something

he asked sincerely

certainly

chapter 10

patrick’s story

as judge carl husky drove to the

hospital the next afternoon

he thought about how patrick had changed

physically in the months before his

disappearance

he’d gained weight steadily

a month before he disappeared he told

carl that he weighed 150 kilos

he grew a beard and let his hair grow

long

he didn’t look like the patrick they

found in brazil

although others had forgotten about

patrick a few months after his

disappearance

carl had thought about his friend every

day

it was hard to believe he was really

back

when he entered the dark room patrick

was sitting in bed with his shirt off

thanks for coming he said

nasty burns carl said as patrick put his

shirt on

it was ugly patrick said

doc says they’re getting better

but i need to stay here

i have no problem with that

and i’m the one who decides where you

stay

patrick seemed to relax a bit

thanks carl

you know i can’t live in the jail

and i’ll kill myself before i go to

parchment

i don’t blame you

let’s talk about something pleasant

you said you can’t keep this case

when will you give it to someone else

who

soon

probably trussell

carl stared at patrick who was unable to

keep eye contact

this wasn’t the same patrick he’d known

before

he decided to ask patrick about his

experiences

where’d you get that chin and nose

bought them in real

do you like them

they’re handsome

i hear their beautiful beaches in brazil

yes

there was a long silence

carl realized that patrick was in no

hurry to talk

but he couldn’t sit silently in the dark

room much longer

look patrick i’m not here as your judge

i’m not your lawyer

i’m your friend

you can talk to me

i guess it sounds romantic doesn’t it

disappearing and becoming somebody new

all your problems are left behind

you dream about that don’t you carl

i guess everybody does it sometimes

how long did you plan it

a long time

i seriously doubted that the baby was

mine

carl they walked down the hall and sat

looking out a window

it was a sunday

february the 9th

patrick began

i found the place for the accident the

day before

at about 10 o’clock that night i left

the cabin

i stopped at verhall’s country store and

bought some gas

three kilometers down the road i turned

onto a dirt road and stopped

i put on some protective clothes and

drove back to the highway

at the top of a steep hill

i drove off the side of the road

i was scared when the car went into the

air

it crashed and rolled onto its side

my shoulder hurt but i was able to climb

out

i took off the protective clothes and

threw them into the blazer

earlier that day i’d hidden four cans of

gasoline

i put three cans inside the car

and poured the gasoline from the fourth

can around the inside and outside of the

car

then i stepped back lit a cigarette and

threw it into the car

it exploded like a bomb

he took a drink of soda

i ran to find the old motorcycle i’d

hidden pushed it up the hill and rode

away

soon i was back at my cabin

i was scared

but i knew i was running to freedom and

a new life

patrick was dead

it was exciting

what about the guy burning in the car

patrick

carl almost asked

instead he said

weren’t you afraid pepper would see you

patrick studied his feet for a few

seconds and then said

pepper was gone

carl ordered a pizza

after they ate he said

you were at the cabin

yes

it was around 11 30.

i covered the windows so no one would

see the lights

then i cut my hair and colored it dark

brown and i shaved my beard

i felt like a different person

i cleaned the cabin really well and left

at 1am

did you have any concern for trudy

no

i knew she’d handled the shock well and

that she’d be a good widow for about a

month

then she’d get the life insurance money

pepper’s gun tent and sleeping bag were

found under one of the beds

how’d they get there

patrick looked at the wall

i don’t know

where’d you go

carl asked

the judge enjoyed the evening so much

that he called patrick the next day to

see if they could do it again

patrick was anxious for company

when he arrived carl sat next to

patrick’s bed and they ate the pizza

he’d brought

why are you retiring patrick asked

how did you know i’m retiring

i haven’t told many people and you were

in brazil

i had a spy carl

someone here

of course not

i couldn’t risk contacting anyone here

i had an attorney friend there

a woman

now i understand

she’s the one who has the money

patrick smiled and laughed

what do you want to know about the money

carl

everything

where is it how much is left

can’t tell you where it is

there’s more money now than i took

how’d you do it

patrick walked across the room and

stretched

then he sat down on the edge of the bed

i got lucky

he whispered

i was leaving carl

with or without the money

i knew the money was coming to the firm

and i had a plan to get it

but if it didn’t work i was still

leaving

we got as far as your funeral last night

right

i stayed at orange beach a couple of

days listening to portuguese language

tapes

i also listened to conversations i’d

recorded around the office

and i organized documents about arithea

i learned how to sail

and then hid in the sailboat and watched

biloxi from there

why did you want to do that

i had the office bugged

i could listen to their conversations on

the boat

and i recorded all of them

do you have these tapes

of course

there were hundreds of them

at night i listened to them and

organized the important parts

i knew everything that was said in that

office

i knew where the money was going and

when it would get there

so how’d you steal it

i flew to miami

then i used a false passport saying i

was doug vetrano

flew to nassau

and went to the bank that the money was

being wired to

i was sitting in the manager’s office

drinking coffee when the wire came in

i immediately had the money wired out to

a bank in malta with instructions to

wire it on to panama

when i left the bank chapter 11

leah’s story

paulo miranda’s last phone call from his

daughter had been two days earlier

she was in a hotel in new orleans

she was scared though trying desperately

not to show it

he was angry that she wouldn’t give more

details

and he was worried about her and he was

tired of the men who were following him

everywhere he went

after finishing his work he walked to

his car in the parking lot

he was thinking his eyes down

a small red van was parked next to his

car

as he approached the driver got out and

opened the back door

but paulo didn’t notice

osmar stopped paulo and roughly pushed

him into the van the door closed a gun

was pointed between his eyes and a voice

told him to be silent

the van raced away

an hour and a half later it stopped

behind a farmhouse and paolo was led

inside

he wouldn’t be harmed he was told unless

he tried to escape

a phone call to the police informed them

of the kidnapping

calls were made to paulo’s son in rio to

the manager of ava’s apartment and to

one of her friends

the message was the same

paulo miranda had been kidnapped

and the police were investigating

eva was staying in new york moving

frequently

she called her father and there was no

answer

then she called her brother and learned

about the kidnapping

he was going crazy

no there hadn’t been a request for money

against patrick’s specific instructions

she called him speaking in

portuguese

patrick it’s leah

she said

trying to show no emotion

what’s wrong he asked in portuguese

he wasn’t pleased to hear her voice

it’s my father

she said

and told him the story of paulo’s

disappearance

i have to go home

no leah he said calmly it’s a trap

they’re not asking for money they want

you

she played with her hair and watched the

people rushing by

so what do i do

go to new orleans call sandy when you

get there

while she waited at the airport she

thought about her father and the

terrible things they could be doing to

him

they were hurting him because of her

and there was nothing she could do

patrick called sandy

when dr hayani looked into patrick’s

room in the morning patrick was sitting

in a chair by the window looking at the

closed curtains

patrick

are you okay

he asked

after a minute patrick answered i’m fine

doc

but i didn’t sleep at all

you’re safe now patrick

the sun’s up

when he left patrick got up and walked

to the door

did you sleep well

the guard at the door asked as he did

every morning

i slept safe eddie thanks

patrick said

as he did every morning

he returned to his room and did some

exercises

the routine was the same every day he

wanted to be danilo again with his quiet

life in his small house

he wanted to walk along the streets of

pontapura and run in the country

he missed brazil

and he missed eva

her soft touch her beautiful smile

he couldn’t live without her

he’d escaped before

why couldn’t he escape again

he’d have a perfect life with ava

he’d put her in danger

and now he must protect her

could he do it again

or had his luck ended

sandy met cutter at 8 am

do you remember that phone call you

received 13 days ago

sandy asked

the lady from brazil

cutter said he did and sandy continued

i’ve met with her a few times

she’s a lawyer for patrick

he quickly explained most of what he

knew about leah

though he never mentioned her name then

he asked about the stefano investigation

cutter became cautious

how do you know about that

the lady from brazil knows all about

stefano remember she gave you his name

he’s still trying to get my clan and i’d

like to stop him

and how do you know this

because his men in brazil have kidnapped

the woman’s father

gutter’s mouth opened and he looked at

the ceiling

then it made sense

does she know where the money is

that’s a possibility

the kidnapping is an effort to make her

go back to brazil

then they’ll capture her and treat her

like the treated patrick

it’s all about money

there’s not much we can do about it

yes there is

put pressure on stefano

tell him

sandy parked in front of the beach house

leah answered the door with a smile

on the table was a box and beside it

were papers neatly arranged

this is the aritheaphile

leah said

patrick prepared it

they sat at a small table in the kitchen

and ate

house patrick she asked

patrick’s okay the burns are getting

better

he ate a bit

i’m sorry i forgot to ask about your

father

i talked to my brother today

and there’s still no word

it’s difficult

i can’t go home and i can’t stay here

i’m very sorry leah

he asked more questions

general questions not about the

kidnapping as he ate

she didn’t touch her food

when he finished they moved to the table

with the box and papers on it

how much do you know about the arithea

matter

she asked

just the information that was in the

paper

these documents and tapes are the

evidence for everything i’m going to

tell you

the arethia claim was false from the

beginning

she spoke slowly

benny arithia made the plan to cheat

both his company and his government

he was helped by some very good lawyers

patrick’s old firm

and a senator

bogan’s cousin in washington

patrick was a new partner then

he wasn’t included in the arathia plan

but he knew something was happening

he found out that the secrecy was

because of arithea

and he was patient

he pretended to notice nothing

but he was gathering evidence

a lot of it’s in his box

explain how the claim was false

arathia ran new coastal shipyards in

pascagoula

it’s a small division of platinum

rockland

i know all that

they have big defense contracts and are

known for cheating the government

that’s right

a new coastal was working on an enormous

building program for the navy

arithia wrote false work records

claiming thousands of hours for work

that was never done

for employees who never existed

he charged unbelievably high prices for

materials

drinking cups for thirty dollars each

for example

he created piles of paperwork

very little with his name on it

he kept good records

cd3

chapter 12

stefano’s story continued

the third day underhill was back

we’ll start where we stopped yesterday

mr stefano your arrival in brazil

right

it’s a big country and has a history of

being a great place to hide

we put together a file on lanigan and

had it translated into portuguese

we had computer artists make pictures of

his appearance

then we hurried to brazil and hired the

best investigators we could find

in april 1994 we found the doctor who’d

changed lanigan’s chin and nose

we knew then that he was in brazil

stefano’s fourth meeting began early

the questioner was a new one oliver

you were talking about the doctor who

changed lanigan’s chin and nose oliver

said continue

stefano got comfortable in his chair

for a long time we didn’t find anything

then late in 94 we were contacted by an

investigation firm in atlanta the pluto

group they said they might have some

information i’d want

they had a mysterious client who claimed

to know something about lanigan

obviously i was interested

the client not surprisingly wanted lots

of money

this was encouraging

if their client expected a big reward

then the client knew that lanigan still

had plenty of money

in july of 95 the pluto group approached

me and said their client could lead us

to a place in brazil where lanigan had

recently lived

we agreed on the sum of fifty thousand

dollars

after the money was wired to a bank in

panama

i was given an address of an apartment

building in the small city of itahi

we showed the manager our pictures of

patrick

he said the man’s name was john horst a

german who’d rented an apartment for two

months

what about the pluto group

we didn’t hear much from them for six

months

then in january of this year they

returned

their client needed money and was ready

to tell us everything

for a few million dollars we could learn

exactly where our man was

but their client wouldn’t talk until the

money was paid

and i wouldn’t pay until their client

talked

event underhill joined oliver after a

coffee break

we’ve seen the photos of the burns mr

stefano

and we the fbi

have been sued for the injuries caused

by your men

now tell us how you did it

i wasn’t there

i knew he’d be given electric shocks

i had no idea it would cause serious

burns

underhill and oliver looked at each

other in disbelief and whispered

they both asked a number of questions

about the capture and questioning

finally

they asked the most important question

during the questioning of mr lanigan

what did you learn about the money

not much

he told us where the money had been

but it had been moved

the man who did the questioning believes

that mr lanigan didn’t know where the

money was

did mr lanigan mention a partner

i don’t know

they whispered again and then paused

stefano waited nervously

then the door opened and hamilton james

walked in followed by warren

i’ve been listening in the next room

jane said with a smile

and suddenly i wonder if you’re being

truthful

stefano was more anxious

of course i am

of course

have you ever heard the name eva miranda

she’s a lawyer in rio

a friend of patrick’s

no

well

that’s what bothers me jack

i think you know exactly who she is

you’re trying to find her

i don’t know what you’re talking about

stefano said weekly

underhill spoke

he’s lying

oliver and warren agreed

jane’s picked up a sheet of paper

this is a story from a rio paper this

morning

it tells of the kidnapping of mr paolo

miranda

his daughter is patrick’s friend jack

we’ve checked with the police in rio

nothing has been heard from the

kidnappers

so where’s mr miranda

i don’t know what you’re talking about

jane’s looked at the other end of the

table

still lying under hill said

and oliver chapter 13

ava

leah didn’t see the man at the

supermarket at first

but then she turned and saw his green

eyes staring at her

she calmly walked away

minutes later

she saw him again

hiding his face

but watching every move she made

she was frightened

but remained calm as she walked through

the store

she saw him once more in the store and

then saw him walking through the parking

lot

carrying nothing

she paid for her groceries as calmly as

possible

but her hand shook as she took her

change

she got in her car and drove in the

direction of the beach house

though she knew she could never go back

there

after a kilometer she turned quickly and

saw him three cars behind

her she desperately wanted to see

patrick so she could scream at him

this was not part of their agreement

she drove on remaining calm as patrick

had taught her the man with the green

eyes wasn’t following her now

but she knew others would be watching

an hour later she entered the airport in

pensacola and bought a ticket for the

next flight which went to miami

in miami she bought a one-way ticket to

sao paulo

why not visit her country

the agent at the passport checkpoint had

seen an announcement that the fbi was

looking for a young brazilian woman aged

31

and pushed an alarm

a manager appeared and said

could you step in here miss pirage

he pointed to a row of doors

is there a problem she demanded as they

walked

not really just a few questions

when they entered a small room he asked

about her reason for going to sao paulo

then he asked

where’s your baggage

according to our records you entered the

country eight days ago

eight days and no baggage

seems odd doesn’t it

is it a crime to travel without baggage

she asked

no but it is a crime to use a false

passport in the u.s

do you know a person by the name of ava

miranda

leah’s heart stopped

her face fell

and she knew the chase was at an end

the long table was piled with papers and

files and the arithea box sat empty in a

corner

patrick and sandy chapter 14

settlements

at first bogan and vetrano were happy

when patrick was found

but soon it became obvious that the

money wasn’t following him back to

biloxi

then they remembered the bugs stefano

had discovered in their office

they’d forgotten about patrick’s tapes

now they were worried

too much had been said in the offices

do you think we’ll get the money

vitrano asked

no

there was a long pause

we’ll be lucky if we’re not indicted

sandy went to paris’s office at 10 a.m

parish had asked for the meeting

there was a lot of missing information

about the murder and he wanted it

what was the cause of death

and the big question who was killed

after a short discussion

parish said

i have a suggestion if your client gives

me information i can reduce his crime to

accidental killing instead of capital

murder

the penalty is 20 years in prison

would he consider this

go do it

then we’ll talk

sandy returned to his room at the biloxi

nugget hotel

which he’d organized as his office

his first visitor was j murray riddleton

trudy’s lawyer

riddleton gave sandy their suggested

divorce settlement

they knew it would be changed to

whatever patrick wanted

the second visitor was talbot mims the

biloxi lawyer for northern case

do you know jack stefano sandy asked

mims said he didn’t

i didn’t think so

he’s an investigator hired by arithia

northern case and monarch sierra to find

patrick

look at these

sandy said with a smile as he slid a set

of photos of patrick’s burns across the

table the mims

these were in the paper when you sued

the fbi

the fbi didn’t find patrick

we sued them to make people feel

sympathetic toward patrick

anyway the men responsible for these

injuries were working for stefano

northern case was one of his clients

mims hid his surprise

can you prove this he asked calmly

what do you want

the fbi can prove it

i want to talk to someone with the

the following morning after a phone call

from cutter james and several people

from his office parish and mast the u.s

attorney for the district

met sandy in his hotel room office

two court reporters were also present

no one smiled

but they weren’t unhappy to be there

sandy gave greetings from his client and

discussed the charges against patrick

the government charges are serious but

they’re small in comparison to capital

murder

we’d like you to drop them so we can

concentrate on the murder charge

we have an offer that includes money

we have no claim to the money jane said

it wasn’t stolen from the government

that’s where you’re wrong

sandy explained how arithea had worked

with bogan’s firm to cheat the

government out of 600 million dollars

he told them about the documents and

tapes

then he said

here’s our suggestion

we’ll hand over the documents and tapes

patrick will return the money

all of it

in exchange the government will drop its

charges

his brazilian attorney ava miranda must

be released immediately

james looked at the floor

and it has to be done today

sandy added

or my client will keep the money destroy

the evidence and spend his time in

prison

well let’s talk about this said

sprawling one of the government

officials with jane’s

great idea sandy said as he put a tape

in the tape player

the date was january 14th 1992

he said

and he played a conversation between

bogan vetrano and arethea that mentioned

the senator’s cooperation

gentlemen

this is just one example he told them

when it finished

the others left the room to talk

it soon became obvious to mast that the

rest had already made their decision

so we’re going to accept it he said

acting as if he didn’t care

yes sprawling said

we look good by getting the money back

patrick stays in jail for a long time

we arrest more important criminals

the group returned to sandy’s office and

sprawling spoke for them

about the money how much is your client

willing to return he asked sandy

all 90 million

mrs stefano was sleeping well again

the fbi had left their street and the

neighbors had stopped calling

her husband was relaxed

then at 5 30 a.m the phone rang

who’s calling she demanded when she

picked it up

hamilton james fbi

oh my god she said jack it’s the fbi

again

stefano took the phone

good morning jack this is hamilton james

i wanted to let you know that we’ve got

the girl eva miranda

she’s safe

so you can tell your men to stop looking

for her

stefano sat up their last hope was gone

the search for the money was finally

over

congratulations he said

look jack

i’ve sent some men to rio

you have 24 hours to release her father

if he’s not free by then i’ll arrest you

and arithia and probably mr addison at

monarch sierra and mr jill at northern

case

i hear you

and the phone went quiet

mrs stefano was in the bathroom with the

door locked too frightened to face him

stefano went to the kitchen and made

coffee

he was tired of benny

arithia he waited an hour and then

called him

when stefano called

benny knew his dream was over

he’d hoped to find the money and then

disappear with it

just like patrick

but he still had a million dollars

and he had friends in other countries

it was time to leave

just like patrick

he and guy left biloxi after dark

guy went to mobile and benny went to new

orleans

he watched closely as he drove

but didn’t see anyone behind him

he went to the airport and flew to

chicago

then on to new york at dawn

the fbi was in boca raton florida

watching benny’s home

his swedish girlfriend was still there

she’d leave soon they thought

and it would be much easier to follow

her

it was almost dark when paulo his eyes

covered was led from the house

when the car stopped he was helped from

the back

a voice said

to your left 300 meters is a farmhouse

with a telephone

go there for help

i have a gun

if you turn around i’ll have to kill you

at 2 pm talbot mims and a manager from

northern case arrived at the hotel

sandy took them to his office

hal ladd and a lawyer from monarch

sierra joined them

sandy repeated the information about

patrick’s torture

and reminded them that stefano was

working for three clients

benny arethea and their two companies

how do you plan to prove this

asked mims

sandy opened a door and asked jane’s to

join them

with great pleasure james described the

things stefano had told them about the

search for patrick the capture and the

torture

all done with money provided by arithea

and the two insurance companies

questions for mr james sandy asked

happily when jane’s finished

there were none

both companies were rich

and neither company wanted this problem

here’s the agreement sandy said

first

northern case is trying to recover the

2.5 million paid to trudy lanigan

we prefer that you drop the lawsuit

besides most of the money has been spent

if you do this my client will drop his

claim for personal injuries against your

company

is that all

mims asked not believing it

yes that’s it

okay

we agree

sandy gave them their settlement

agreement and asked them to leave so he

could talk with lad and his client

your settlement’s a bit different he

told them

you paid stefano twice as much as they

did

and you have a lot more cash than

northern case

how much do you have in mind

cohen the monarch sierra lawyer asked

anxiously

nothing for patrick

he’s very concerned however about the

child

she’s six and her mother spends money

quickly

patrick would like a quarter of a

million to go into a special account for

her

money that her mother can’t use

plus

he wants the same amount to pay his

legal costs

total of half a million

paid very quietly

so your client won’t be embarrassed by

those pictures of his injuries

the company was anxious to finish

we’ll do it

cohen said

sandy handed him copies of their

settlement agreement

and

left chapter 15

final arrangements

ava walked out of jail at 8 30 a.m

mark burke rushed her to his car and

took her to the airport where a small

jet was waiting to take her to new york

he told her that from new york she’d go

to london

ava closed her eyes and thought of

patrick

then she noticed the car phone and asked

to use it

she called her father in brazil and had

a tearful conversation

she promised to be home soon

her legal work in the united states was

almost finished and she missed her home

in new york the people at the british

airways check-in counter looked at her

questioningly because she had no baggage

she fought to control her nerves

she couldn’t be arrested again

she loved patrick

but this was too much

in the lounge she had coffee and called

sandy

are you okay he asked

i’m fine sandy

i’m at jfk

on my way to london

how’s patrick

wonderful

we’ve made a settlement with the

government people

113 million

sandy waited for her to say something

when

was all she said

i’ll have instructions when you get to

london

call me when you get to the hotel

tell patrick i still love him

even after going to jail

later in the morning sandy met with

riddleton to look over the divorce

settlement agreement

trudy had already signed it

and riddleton didn’t want to see her

again

we’ll sign it sandy said

there’s a new arrangement involving your

client and her lawsuit with northern

case

they’re going to drop their lawsuit

against trudy

riddleton’s mouth opened

sandy gave him a copy of the northern

case insurance settlement agreement

which he read curiously

what a pleasant surprise

there’s one other thing

sandy told him about the special account

that had 250 000 for ashley nicole

anything else riddleton asked with a

broad smile

that’s it

the divorce is finished

patrick was taken into the courthouse

through a side door

he wore new clothes that sandy had

bought

he was pale and thin but seemed to have

no difficulty walking

actually patrick felt great

patrick began

i had a car wreck case once

the driver was killed

and two people were injured

it was the truck’s fault sandy

but the driver claimed that our client’s

car was speeding

we found a witness

mr clovis goodman age 81

he tried to help the injured people in

the car but couldn’t

he left without saying anything to

anyone

later we found him

but he was still too upset to talk about

it

clovis lived alone in the country

and i asked if i could visit him

he was a lonely old man who didn’t trust

lawyers

we drank coffee and talked about

everything except the wreck

when i asked about it

he informed me softly that he was there

but he couldn’t talk about it yet

i went back and we exchanged more

stories

i took him to dinner and we stopped for

a few beers

but he still couldn’t talk about the

wreck

after a month i put pressure on him

i told him we’d reached an important

point in the lawsuit

and it was time for him to answer some

questions

he said he was ready

he had tears in his eyes

and wanted to help the family in the car

they weren’t speeding

we went to trial

and clovis goodman was the best witness

i’ve ever seen

the jury gave our clients 2.3 million

dollars

we became friends

when he got sick and couldn’t live by

himself

i moved him into a nursing home and took

care of his finances

at that time

i was his only friend

he hadn’t heard from his relatives for

years

he got very sick in january of ninety

two

i moved him to a hospital and visited

every day

on february sixth he died

sandy breathed heavily and closed his

eyes tightly

clovis wasn’t buried was he

he asked

no

i put his body in a freezer at my cabin

sandy was shocked

i didn’t kill anybody sandy

i needed a body

but he was already dead when his body

burned

sandy walked around the room then leaned

on the wall

let’s hear the rest of it he said

i’m sure you

sandy visited clovis’s granddaughter at

the coffee shop where she worked

i have good news for you he said

they sat at a table and had coffee

as efficiently as possible he told her

patrick’s story

she found it amusing

give him the death penalty she said

he didn’t kill anybody

the body in the car was already dead

he just stole it

the body was clovis goodman your

grandfather

she looked at him with narrow eyes

he burned clovis

why

he had to have a dead body

clovis was his client and friend

she looked confused

it’s a crime to destroy a dead body

that means clovis’s family can sue my

client

she smiled and said

now i understand

sandy smiled too

yes

that’s why i’m here

my client would like to make a very

quiet settlement with you

how much

what’s most you’ll pay

sandy drank his coffee

fifty thousand

okay

they shook hands

sandy gave her a settlement agreement to

sign and wrote a check

ava left her london hotel and took a

long walk

she looked in the store windows and then

stopped for lunch

she listened to the happy people who had

no idea who she was

they didn’t care

she felt more like lea pirege than ava

miranda

she began shopping without paying

attention to the prices

she was a very wealthy woman at the

moment

at two o’clock in the afternoon she had

a meeting with the manager of deutsche

bank’s london office

his bank would wire 113 million from its

zurich office to its washington office

following her instructions

after the wire

there would be 1.9 million dollars in

the account

another swiss account had 3 million

a bank on grand cayman held 6.5 million

a financial advisor in bermuda had 4

million

and 7.2 million was in luxembourg

the swedish lady left benny arathia’s

home and put her baggage in his bmw

she sped away

went to the airport and took a plane to

london

when she landed the officials were

watching for her

patrick sat at the end of the table with

sandy on his right and parish on his

left

since the government charges had been

dropped parish felt pressured to get

justice from patrick for the state

you can forget murder terry patrick said

i didn’t kill anyone

the person in the car had been dead for

four days

parish questioned him and accepted that

patrick was right

but he wasn’t going to give up

completely

looks like a year in jail he said

a year in parchment should be good for

you

sure

except that i’m not going to parchman

you don’t have a body

you have no idea who was burned

and i’m not telling until we make an

agreement

drop the charges

you can’t win

the family of the dead person doesn’t

want to sue patrick sandy said

you can’t prove anything against me

there are no witnesses and the evidence

isn’t good enough

you can’t make us look like fools

parish said

give us something

i’ll say i’m guilty of destroying the

dead body but i get no jail time

you can explain to the judge that the

family doesn’t want to sue me

you can talk about the torture and what

i’ve been through

you can do all that parish

and you’ll look very good

but no jail

parish thought for a minute

and you’ll tell us the name of the dead

person

i will

but only after we have an agreement

okay

but i have to speak with judge trussell

he’ll have to agree too

patrick smiled at sandy

parish stood up to leave

oh

i almost forgot

the district attorney said

what can you tell us about pepper

scarborough

i can give you his new name and passport

number

sandy parish and judge trussell spent

several hours working out a plea

agreement to reduce the charges against

patrick

sandy took it to him at the hospital

they read the agreement aloud and

patrick signed

sandy noticed that he was already

packing

back in his hotel room office sandy’s

phone rang

it was jack stefano who was downstairs

and wanted to talk

i’m here out of curiosity

the hearing was scheduled for five

o’clock in the courthouse

patrick put on new pants and a large

white shirt

he shook hands with hayani and thanked

him for his friendship

after two weeks as a patient and

prisoner patrick left the hospital

his lawyer was at his side and his

guards followed behind

it was supposed to be a secret hearing

to complete the secret agreements

but people heard about it

in less than 30 minutes half the city

knew

and the courtroom was crowded

patrick smiled for the photographers as

he was led to the jury room

carl entered and asked the guards to

wait in the hall

when are you leaving he asked

i don’t know

soon

can i go with you

would you really leave

if you had the chance to disappear right

now

would you do it

no i wouldn’t leave

but i don’t blame you

everybody wants to disappear carl

at some time in life everybody thinks

about walking away

problems can be left behind

judge trussell entered the courtroom

patrick was led through the door and

stood next to sandy in front of the

judge he didn’t look at his audience

mr lanigan trussell said

first you’ve asked us to reduce the

charges from capital murder to

destroying a dead

body people were surprised

destroying a dead body

parish explained the recent developments

in the case

next it’s been suggested that this court

should accept a plea of guilty to the

charge of destroying a dead body

mr parish

and parish told the story of clovis

what’s your plea mr lanigan the judge

asked

guilty

patrick said

firmly but with no pride

does the state have a recommended

punishment

parish walked to his table looked

through his notes and returned to the

judge’s desk

yes your honor

i have a letter from miss dina pastel of

meridian mississippi she’s a grandchild

of clovis goodman

he handed a copy to trussel in the

letter ms postell asked this court not

to punish mr lanigan for burning her

grandfather’s dead body

he’s been dead for over four years and

the family doesn’t want any more

suffering

so the state recommends a punishment of

12 months in jail

they drove into louisiana in silence

then sandy said

i had a very interesting visitor this

afternoon

really

who

jack stefano

he visited me at the hotel

he said he was sorry his boys injured

you so much when they caught you

he told me about the person in brazil

who gave him information about you and

about the pluto group

and he asked me directly if ava sold the

information

he’s curious

because he found his man

but didn’t get the money

for the last three years i’ve been

chased in my sleep by a hundred men

all of them were hired by jack stefano

i finally got tired of it sandy

i gave up

disappearing is an adventure until you

learn that someone’s trying to find you

and is watching everything you do

i stole too much money sandy

they had to come after me

when i learned they were already in

brazil i knew the end would come

so i decided to do it my way

not theirs

patrick breathed heavily looked out the

window and tried to organize his

thoughts

the rewards were my idea sandy

ava flew to atlanta where she met the

pluto group

we paid them

and we gave stefano information

sandy turned slowly his mouth open

you’re lying he said

i know you’re lying

no

we collected one million one hundred and

fifty thousand dollars from stefano

it’s hidden now

probably in switzerland with the rest of

it

you don’t know where it is

she’s been taking care of it

i’ll find out when i see her

sandy was too shocked to say anything

else

patrick continued

i knew they’d capture me

and i knew they’d tried to make me talk

but i didn’t know this would happen

he pointed to the rope mark above his

left ankle

they almost killed me

i finally gave up and told them about

ava

by then she was gone

and so was the money

they almost killed you

sandy said

that’s true

but two hours after i was captured ava

called cutter in biloxi

and he called the fbi in washington

that’s what saved my life

sandy took him to his mother’s house and

drove away

in the morning patrick woke up smiling

his life of hiding was over

he and his mother talked drove around

the city and did some shopping

then patrick went to the airport

he flew to atlanta and from there to

nice france

he’d last seen ava a month earlier in

rio

she’d almost persuaded him to run and

hide again

but he was tired of running

they’d said goodbye near her apartment

he’d kissed her and walked away

leaving her crying

he flew back to pontapura and began

waiting

on sunday when the train from nice

arrived in aches

patrick took a taxi to the hotel galici

she’d reserved a room in both names

ava miranda and patrick lanigan

but she hadn’t arrived yet the clerk

informed him

he went to the room unpacked and fell

asleep

dreaming of her

when he woke up he went for a walk

maybe they’d live here

they’d stay here for a week or so then

go back to rio

but maybe rio wouldn’t be home

feeling free

patrick wanted to live everywhere

to experience different cultures

to learn different languages

he refused to worry

he waited until dark

and then walked slowly back to the hotel

she wasn’t there

and there was no message

he called the hotel in london and was

informed that she’d left yesterday

he called her father

she was in london paolo said

he would say nothing more

patrick waited two hours and then called

sandy

she’s missing he said

now frightened

sandy hadn’t heard from her

patrick stayed in aches for two days

walking calling sandy and paulo

alone in his room he cried from a broken

heart

he drank too much alcohol

on the third day he left

asking a clerk to keep an envelope at

the desk for ms miranda if she arrived

he flew to rio

he wasn’t sure why

she was too smart to go to rio

patrick had taught her too well how to

disappear

no one would find ava

unless she wanted them to

you

第 1 章

pontipora brazil

他们发现他在 pontipora

一个宜人的巴西小镇，

位于巴拉圭边境

他独自住在 rua tiradentes 的一所小房子里

，开着一辆 1983 年的红色大众汽车

他更瘦

了 他的皮肤和头发更

黑了 他的鼻子和下巴 不同的是，

他们考虑尽快带他去，

但决定

等他去市中心时，他们跟着

他拍了照片

，当他和市场上的一位店员交谈时，他们听着

他的葡萄牙语非常好，

几乎没有口音，

他们看着他沿着

ruatientes 跑进 乡村

他对跑步很认真

，这让他们很高兴

达尼洛会直接撞上他们的怀抱这个

人来自华盛顿

特区，被雇来寻找达尼洛，

他已经寻找了四年

，白白花了 350 万美元

但现在他找到了

osmar，他的巴西朋友不

知道这家伙为什么要 danilo，

但他们猜想他已经消失

并拿走了很多钱

他们复印了大量照片，贴

在他们住的小房子的墙上，

仔细研究了这些照片，

奥斯马现在真的想带他去吗，

但那家伙说他们会

等到第四天，

达尼洛赶到 机场

停好他的车

坐上一架小飞机去圣保罗

然后走了

他们等着

看红色大众汽车和

到达的飞机

奥斯马尔相信达尼洛会

回来他们会得到他

他在第五天回来了

每个人都很开心

一天 danilo 跑完他的 10 公里

路线

第八天几乎在同一时间离开 当 danilo

翻过山顶

时 一辆轮胎漏气的小汽车

挡住了道路 它的后备箱打开

了 年轻的司机假装

对 看到瘦瘦的

跑步者，

这个人用达尼洛的钥匙打开

了他家的门，

他收集了所有的电脑磁盘，

他在桌上的文件中翻阅了

五分钟，但找不到他要找的东西 门打开后，

发出无声信号，并打了一个电话

，通知另一端

的人，陌生人进入了房子

警卫档案中的指示很

清楚

不要报警

在里约拨打电话号码

求

伊娃·米兰达 爱娃放下电话 消息意味着达尼洛

失踪了

她告诉自己要放松

她需要冷静地去做她必须

做的事情

她从锁着的抽屉里拿出一份文件并

阅读说明书 再一次，

丹尼洛的指示很

笼统 细节留给她

她分配她的钱

列出了

隐藏资金的虚构公司

丹尼洛从未见过她

作为律师的名单 她与

国际商人合作

并了解外国货币和银行业务

她知道如何在世界各地转移资金，

而达尼洛当时教会了她更多

的钱，因为欧洲银行现在关门了，所以钱在两个

地方

，巴拿马的一家银行

和百慕大的一家银行

她会把钱留在

加勒比海几个小时

她发传真指示把钱从

巴拿马和百慕大转移到

大开曼岛和巴哈马的银行

随着时间流逝而没有

达尼洛的电话

她变得更加担心

他 不会在不先告诉她的情况下消失，

但如果他们找到了他，

他们很快就会

试图让他说话

，那是他最害怕的事情

，这就是为什么她不得不逃跑的原因。

她去了公用电话

进入她的办公大楼，打电话给

位于密西西比州比洛克西的联邦调查局办公室，询问约书亚·卡特

探员，

当他接电话时，她

问你是否负责帕特里克·拉尼根的

调查，

她知道他在

那里，

然后他说

是

，是谁 这

是我从巴西打来的吗？她说

第二章

巴拉圭

达尼洛躺在一块板上有洞

冲进房间

，把一根针塞进他的

胳膊 药物进入了达尼洛的身体

那个人独自进入房间

你好帕特里克 他说

达尼洛知道他在 ruatientes 的平静生活

已经结束

他不再是达尼洛席尔瓦 现在

他又是帕特里克

4 多年来他一直

想知道如果他们现在抓住他

他会怎么想他知道

他非常害怕

你能听到我吗帕特里克家伙问

我们知道你是谁

你是密西西比比洛克西的帕特里克·拉尼根

你是一名律师

你有一个妻子 还有一个六岁的女儿，

你已经失踪了

四年多了

，那就是我

告诉我

帕特里克，你看过你自己的葬礼吗？

是的，

我看过了

，你葬礼后到处躲在

哪里，钱在哪里？帕特里克

小伙笑着问

什么

钱 你带走的钱

哦

那钱

帕特里克说

然后他失去了

知觉 与金属相连的 es

穿过他的身体，到达男人手中的一个盒子

帕特里克告诉自己，他们

不会杀了他，

他已经想象过这种情况一千

次，并祈祷它永远不会发生，

但他一直都知道它会

他一直都知道他们在外面

找

他 他闭上眼睛努力呼吸

努力控制自己的

思想

我不知道钱在哪里

我不知道钱在哪里

他默默地重复着

直到今天他才 每天

在四

个人之间打电话给 eva 把盒子靠近帕特里克的脸

看到这个

他说当我推动这个杠杆时

电流会通过电线

到达你皮肤上的金属板

现在钱在哪里

我不知道

我发誓

那个人推了 拉杆和电流

射穿了帕特里克的身体，灼伤了他的

皮肤

他紧紧闭上了眼睛和嘴巴

努力不叫出声

但一秒钟后他停止了尝试

大声尖叫

告诉我钱在

哪里 你会离开这个 roo 我还活着，

我们会带你回蓬塔普拉，

我们不会告诉联邦调查局的

人停下来，

如果你拒绝告诉我

钱在哪里，

那么你永远不会活着离开这个房间

，你明白吗？帕特里克，

是的，

我发誓我不知道

如果我知道我会告诉你，

那家伙把杠杆推了下去，

我不知道，

帕特里克痛苦地尖叫着，我发誓我不

知道，

那家伙等了几秒钟，帕特里克才

恢复过来，

然后他平静地问

我钱在哪里？ 知道

帕特里克的尖叫声充满了房子，

他们让他一个人呆了几分钟

受苦，想想接下来会发生什么，

他的皮肤因热和电而变红，

血液从他胸前的胶带下面流出来

，金属在

他的肉

里燃烧 绑在手腕和脚踝上的绳子

擦掉了他的皮肤，

然后那个人独自回来

，坐在帕特里克旁边的椅子上

，葬礼期间他问帕特里克你在哪里，他

放松了一点，

最后有一个与金钱无关的问题，

如果他合作的话

他们不会 再次折磨他

我躲在 biloxi 他说

当然 你看了你自己的葬礼

是的

我在树上

葬礼

人

要求移动阿拉巴马州后你去哪里

你改变了你的外表

是的

我大喊大叫 其他美国人

冲进来

巴西医生将另一

根针粗暴地推入帕特里克的手臂，然后

离开录音机被打开，如果帕特里克不说话，

他就

准备移动控制杆

，这笔钱于 1992 年 3 月 26 日通过电汇到达您

位于拿骚的律师事务所的银行账户

45 天 你死后

你在那里 patrick

假装是别人

我们有照片是银行

隐藏的

相机在钱到达后不久

通过电汇寄到马耳他的一家银行

你偷的 patrick

现在它在哪里

告诉我

和 你会活下去

patrick 看着那个家伙，

然后看着操纵杆

，然后紧紧地闭上了眼睛

eam 声音太大太可怕了，osmar 和

院子里的巴西人在

一百米外停止

了谈话 一个守卫房子的

巴西人祈祷 库里提巴的公寓靠近

机场

究竟该怎么办，

她走到锁着的文件柜前，

打开三个抽屉，

拿出财务记录，

放在手提箱里随身携带，

达尼洛不知道他的文件

在哪里，

然后她迅速离开，被带到

一家小旅馆

在市中心的房间里，她打开了她的小型传真机的包装

，将它连接到电话

线 亚洲和苏黎世的银行现在已经

开门了 他们会来找

她

她不能

回家 并开始

整理文件

第 3 章

回到北美

斯特凡诺太太快疯

了 几个邻居打电话说

他们家门口停着联邦调查局特工

她不在乎她丈夫

在办公室

做了什么 她很在意

邻居们会怎么想

她

半夜 3 点上床睡觉 门铃响了

，在沙发上睡着的杰克

接了电话，

四个特工在那里

，他很快认出了汉密尔顿·詹姆斯

联邦调查局副局长

这些人去了斯特凡诺的客厅

然后坐下来，

简

说我们正在处理拉尼根案

我们已经被告知你们的人

有

他这是真的

没有

斯特凡诺保持冷静

我准备逮捕

你因为

斯特凡诺要求

隐藏一个政府通缉的人

缺乏 配合

政府的调查，

我们会

提供我们需要的任何

东西 之后的起诉

取决于我们是否得到

拉尼根

你明白吗

是的 我想

是的

他可能会让钱看起来没问题

给我 24 小时我会给你

拉尼

根 你停止威胁要逮捕我

同意

我需要知道去哪里接他

派飞机去巴拉圭亚松森

他最好

没事 他身上有任何痕迹 你

会负责

詹姆斯和他的经纪人离开

stefano 打电话给

家伙 他在说

什么 你知道他问

了

一点 钱仍然存在 他不知道

它在哪里 它被

里约章的一个女人控制

4

biloxi

自从 patrick 失踪后

，他律师事务所的其余四位合伙

人都遇到了问题，

他们喝了太多酒并争论了

很多，

他们于 1992 年 2 月 11 日埋葬了 patrick，

但六周后他不知何故

把

他们已经花在新房上的钱花

在加勒比海的大船和度假屋上，

现在他们迫切希望拿回他们的

钱

当特工 cuter 进入他们的办公室时，bogan 和 vetrano 在他们的办公桌前，

我们有 patrick，他说

这两个合伙人 很震惊

你是怎么找到他的 你确定是他

vetrano 问

我们确定

我们没有找到他 他是给我们的

你知道一个叫杰克·斯特凡诺的人

吗 他们都低声说是的 你和他一起工作吗

他们都摇晃 他们的头

你很幸运

stefano 的人发现 patrick 折磨他

几乎杀了他

然后把他给了我们

钱怎么办 bogan 问

我们什么都不知道

我们会看着 stefano

也许他会带我们去

钱 多伦多和博根盯着

桌子

想

帕特里克偷了 9000 万

美元 一个人花的钱太多了

肯定还有几百万

钱很容易找到

维特拉诺说

有人被埋在帕特里克的坟墓里

d 他，这显然是

密西西比州的死刑案

帕特里克会说话以避免死刑

切割者看了看他的手表

我必须走了他说

当帕特里克在

没有证人的情况下

他的妻子在车祸中丧生时，我必须给特鲁迪一个好消息 特鲁迪

从他的人寿保险中获得了 250 万美元

她立即买了一栋昂贵的

房子

和一辆昂贵的汽车

她为自己的好运感到兴奋

在新闻发布会之前，卡塔尔和

莫里斯·马斯特（Morris Mast）美国

地区检察官

会见了当地警长雷蒙德·斯威尼（raymond sweeney）

和当地地区检察官 tl parish，

以决定如何处理帕特里克（patrick）

我们有两个大谜团

两个必须回答的问题

教区

说 大的是

钱他在哪里

用它做了什么

我们可以恢复它并把它交给它的

主人第二个谜是谁被埋在

帕特里 ick 的坟墓

只有 patrick 可以告诉我们，

除非他迫不得已，否则他不会告诉我们，

他一定很害怕

如果他说话，

他可能会被送到政府监狱，

而不是

一个不那么可怕的

教区和桅杆制定了一个合作计划，

联邦调查局将继续寻找

当地人将专注于

谋杀

桅杆和教区的钱 在

新闻发布会上，

桅杆首先发言，

我们很高兴地宣布

patrick s lanigan 先生被捕，

他还活着，并且身体很好

，我们把他送到了医院，

他停了

下来，然后告诉他们帕特里克被捕的细节，

他没有提到 联邦调查局不

负责找到帕特里克

教区承诺迅速起诉

谋杀

帕特里克的故事是那天

拉尼根死而复生的大新闻

报纸报道的t 头版上

有关于 patrick

被捕和 trudy 要求

离婚

的故事 律师事务所合伙人起诉 patrick

要求退还他们的 3000 万

美元

Northern case 保险公司起诉 trudy

要求退还他们的钱

benny arithia 起诉 patrick 要求

退还 他的 6000 万美元

和 monarch sierra 保险公司想要

收回他们支付给律师事务所的 400 万美元，

当时帕特里克偷了他们的

钱

这个故事也在所有电视台上

播出

cnn 第五

章基地医院

帕特里克在帮助下走过医院

大厅 他的护士路易斯

的四个地方被烧伤，

全身疼痛

他停下来看着

窗外 他偷了它

他不记得

他受尽折磨的最后一部分他

濒临死亡

他叫过她的名字

但这是对他自己

还是

在哪里大声 她现在

当他们回到他的房间时，

路易斯关上门和窗帘，

拿出相机，

路易斯同意拍照

，帕特里克给他五百

美元

开始，

帕特里克告诉他指着床底

把整个身体

包括那张脸

路易斯按照他的吩咐做了

，完成后他很快就完成了他把电影带到了一个

Photoshop

桑迪麦克德莫特读到了

关于发现他的法学院朋友

的报道，当他的秘书宣布时，他非常感兴趣地

在新奥尔良的办公室里忙着

一个

来自巴西的女人在等着见他

我叫莉亚

她悄悄地说

帕特里克派我来

桑迪注意到她没有微笑而且

眼睛很疲倦

你有没有跟他说过

自从他被带走

我想雇用你 做帕特里克的

律师，

我

有空桑迪有很多问题，

但他知道现在他不能问他们

你可能会受到一些非常

讨厌的人的威胁她告诉他

追帕特里克的人是谁

我想他们已经抓住了他 他说

是的，

但他们没有钱

问这个问题 她说

你想让我在飞机上为他做什么

桑迪和莉亚

在迈阿密降落前没多说话 她说

我几天不会再见到你

我必须继续前进

帕特里克·威尔 给你指示

，他和我会通过你沟通

当人们知道你是他的律师时要小心

你会引起

正在寻找我的

人的注意 他问他是谁

帕特里克会告诉你

你有钱不要 当他们降落时

，我无法回答这个问题

，她握手

说

告诉帕特里克我很好，

然后

当他降落在圣胡安时，她消失在人群中

桑迪去海军基地拜访

帕特里克两位老朋友

六年没见了，

帕特里克坐在他的床上 黑暗的房间里，

他在身上盖了一张床单，

桑迪仔细研究了他的脸，那张脸

很瘦

，下巴和鼻子都不一样

他看起来像别人，

但他的眼睛和声音都一样，

谢谢你的到来帕特里克说

当然

桑迪

回答她说告诉你 她很好

他补充说

帕特里克闭上眼睛说了

声感谢

然后他沉默了

桑迪坐着等他的朋友

他还

活着 现在其他什么都不

重要了 桑迪想

谈谈 很多人都在等你回来

在比洛克西，他说

特鲁迪两天前提出离婚

，大陪审团已起诉你犯有

谋杀罪，

我

知道帕特里克

cnn 已经通知我

桑迪停顿，然后问

你什么时候想说话

帕特里克滚到他身边

看着墙

他们折磨我，桑迪，他悄悄地说，

他们把电线绑在我身上，给我

电击，直到我

在这里说话，

看

他举起左臂，让桑迪可以

检查

他们一直问的烧伤痕迹 他的

钱 恐怕我告诉他们关于女孩

的事 律师安迪

莉亚

是的

我几乎可以肯定 第二天早上六点我告诉他关于莉亚的事

帕特里克的医生走进他的房间

他检查了他的伤口并说

你准备好了 去

那里他们有好医生在等

你你要去的地方

然后他离开了

30 分钟后

biloxi 办公室的代理布伦特迈尔斯

走进

早上好帕特里克我刚刚和

你的医生谈过你明天要回家

我有命令 为了带你回去，

我们将在早上乘坐一架特殊的

空军飞机前往比洛克西

一大早见你

迈尔斯离开

下一个路易斯带着咖啡和水果来了

他在帕特里克的床单下放了一个包裹

问他是否需要其他任何东西

没有

帕特里克

一个小时后轻声感谢他，桑迪到了，

我要你马上回家

帕特里克说

，把这个带走

他把包裹递给桑迪

桑迪坐下

打开它，翻看照片是

谁对你做的 他问谁

的监狱

我不是联邦调查局的，

所以

我认为联邦调查局对我做了

我自己的政府发现我抓到我

折磨了我现在带我回去

看看他们对我做了什么

你应该起诉他们这个

桑迪说

的数百万并迅速

这是

我早上要去 biloxi 的计划，

我们应该在今天下午晚些时候提起诉讼，

这样明天就会出现在报纸上

告诉媒体

我已经标记了两张照片，

把它们给海岸报的记者，

那张是

被我陪审团成员读到的

人会为我感到难过

一个被联邦调查局折磨的美国公民

桑迪研究了帕特里克的脸

这不是真正的联邦调查局 他问的

不是

帕特里克说不是

我被送到了 一些

我不知道他们名字的人的 fbi

他们已经追了我很长时间了

他们还在外面等着

fbi 知道他们吗

是的

patrick 说

他停顿了

小心

我已经隐藏了很多 钱桑迪

有人会不择手段地

找到

第六章多少钱

回到 biloxi

报纸 电视和广播记者

在法院

等待桑迪提起诉讼，

他们仔细聆听，因为他平静地

告诉他们，他的客户正在

起诉联邦调查局进行人身伤害和酷刑

桑迪回答了问题和 然后

把手伸进他的箱子里，取出两张

大的彩色照片

这是他们对帕特里克所做的 他

说相机越来越近

这是你们政府的

联邦调查局特工在工作 女士们先生们 在

折磨一个美国公民

每个人都震惊了

将近六点半 新闻是

关于桑迪的

，另一半是关于帕特里克

第二天回来的照片，

cnn 每小时播放一个故事，

汉密尔顿詹姆斯在他的俱乐部

看到他不高兴的消息时，

他

不高兴联邦调查局被帕特里克拉尼根起诉，

他原谅自己去了 他给他的

办公室

打了个电话

，两名特工立即来到杰克·

斯蒂法诺的前门，

斯蒂法诺看过报告

后并不惊讶 e 联邦调查局

他认为联邦调查局

被指责为他的人的工作很有趣

他还认为这是帕特里克晚安的好主意

他礼貌地说

联邦调查局第一个人说詹姆斯

先生想见你

为什么

我们不 知道第二个人说他

让我们找到你并带你去他的

办公室 你能和我们一起去吗

斯特凡诺很生气但他提醒

自己由于拉尼根案已经

对他提出刑事指控

多一点合作可能有助于

给我 五分钟，他说

当斯特凡诺进入他的办公室时，詹姆斯

放下了他正在看的厚厚的报告

，已经快午夜

了，你对那里的那个男孩

做了什么我不知道

我猜巴西男孩有点

粗鲁

是严肃的事情好吗杰克

这些指控现在很糟糕

，整个国家都在

看这些照片，想知道为什么我们

折磨一个

这样做的美国公民，

医生给了帕特里克药丸让

他舒服 飞机

和一份包含他的医疗记录的档案

帕特里克感谢他

他与路易斯握手并说

再见

迈耶特工

和四名海军警察在门外等着

如果你表现得好我不会给你戴上链子

现在他说

当我们着陆时虽然我 别无选择，

谢谢帕特里克说

他的腿很痛，膝盖很软，

但他昂着头，

挺直腰背，穿过大厅

，走到等候的面包车旁

，面包车缓缓驶过基地，

帕特里克思考着他在

pontapura

他的家 现在

他想知道他们会把他关在比洛克西的什么监狱

然后他想到

他打开文件并迅速阅读

医生的记录

病人应该

至少再住院一周医生

写的

这将使他远离 监狱里

他不得不告诉桑迪为他安排一个

舒适的私人房间

我需要打个电话

当面包车停下时他说他和迈尔斯去

了一个小办公室并将医生的

指示传真给桑 dy

然后他们爬上台阶进入空军

飞机 飞机降落在 biloxi

外的 kiesler 空军基地

帕特里克惊讶地发现没有

人群在等他

d 被禁止

靠近飞机

只有特工 cuter 警长 sweeney 两名

空军军官

和桑迪在那里

你好 patrick 欢迎

回家 警长说

你好 raymond

patrick 笑着回答

他们彼此很了解

听到 fbi 他

转向桑迪

他们都上了等车

patrick 很高兴追逐结束了

很多问题在前面

但现在他可以忽略他

身后的事情

patrick 从来没有能够

完全放松并享受他的新生活

甚至没有 这笔钱可以平息他的恐惧

他一直都知道这一天会

到来

他偷了太多钱

他一边看着窗外

一边写着 cd2

第 7 章

patrick’s 首次出场

切夫和泰德·格里姆肖

区首席调查员仔细

检查了帕特里克死亡的证据 帕特里克

死

时没有多少

人涉嫌谋杀，

因此没有努力收集

物理线索

有十张被

烧毁的雪佛兰的大型彩色照片

汽车烧毁后的西装外套，里面

几乎没有剩下的尸体，

所以现在他们不知道谁在

车祸中丧生了

帕特里克那个周末在比洛克西外森林边缘附近的一间旧小屋里度过了那个周末

2 月 2 日星期日晚上 9 1992 年

他打电话告诉他的妻子他要

离开小屋，

他在 Verhall 的乡村商店停下来

买了 50 升汽油，

一个小时后，发现 patrick 的雪佛兰西装外套

在沿路 12 公里处的陡峭山脚下

燃烧 热，他们无法

救出司机，

他们读了车牌

，凌晨 3 点 30 分，

特鲁迪接到了电话，

第二天他们发现了一个让她成为寡妇的电话

当他们把鞋子拿给 trudy 看时，

她认出它是 patrick 的，并在

他的葬礼上哭了起来。 第二天，

hayani 医生很高兴能坐下来和 patrick 聊天，

他喜欢和

这位在所有新闻报道

中鼓励 patrick 的病人亲密接触 谈论他的

经历 折磨是我永远无法

准确描述的事情

帕特里克说 睡一个小时

是不可能的

我听到声音 然后我闻到我的肉在

燃烧

然后我醒来 情况

并没有好转

我

我睡不着

我不想睡觉

我会再次受到折磨

他暂停了

医生

我需要待在这里只要我能

他们会想把我

和其他罪犯一起关在牢房里

我可以'

不是那样生活 但是他们为什么要感动你

这是压力 医生

他们必须在第三天慢慢增加

帕特里克没有洗头或

刮胡子 今天世界都在等着见他

他穿着他穿过的同样的衣服

他每天都没有 不穿袜子

他想让人们看到他脚踝上方的绳痕

桑迪 10 点到了，给了帕特里克

一副墨镜 他让

帕特里克坐在床边

试着慢慢呼吸

我从没想过这一天会 永远不要来

他说

我会说话 桑迪

说 试着放松

当他们

开车经过比洛克西时

，帕特里克用手肘看着窗外，注意到他离开后的变化，

他开始放松，

然后他们转向主街

，他再次

在旧商店和

商店中间感到焦虑，大白

他曾是 bougain

rapley vetrano hasrack 和 lanigan

律师事务所合伙人

的大楼 汽车停在

法院前，一群记者、

摄影师和摄影师正在等待

patrick 降下 他的头并试图

躲在治安官的助手中间，

他们迅速把他带进

法院，因为媒体喊出了

问题

帕特里克，在家是什么感觉？

你好吗 帕特里克·斯威尼 问

是

确定 雷蒙德 谢谢

他听起来很害怕 他的手和

膝盖都在

颤抖 敲门声 一个

漂亮的女孩进来说

欢迎回来 帕特里克

法官赫斯基想见

你 几分钟

她和斯威尼离开并关上了门

最后帕特里克和他的律师单独在一起

有几件事

莉亚很快就会联系你

我已经给她写了一封长信我

希望你把它给她

好的

第二个 小型机器寻找虫子

拥挤的法庭

在审判中并不少见，

但没有人记得如此拥挤的

房间第一次简单

出庭 新闻界占据了最好的座位

许多律师 是否只是为了见

patrick 报纸上四天以来到处都是关于他的故事

酷刑故事增加了他们的

好奇心

charles bogan 和 doug vetrano 坐在

一起

他们想坐在前排

与 patrick 进行眼神交流并

威胁 他悄悄地，

但他们在

第五 其他几个律师来给

帕特里克他们的支持

逃跑

是许多小镇律师的共同梦想

至少帕特里克有勇气去

追逐梦想

其他几乎不

认识帕特里克的人在场

但现在突然自称是

他的

朋友 门开了，警长斯威尼

进来，拉着帕特里克的手肘，

桑迪跟在帕特里克后面，

慢慢地低着头

穿过房间，走到被告的桌子旁，

他坐在

肩膀上，

下巴低下，

桑迪把手放在肩膀上

门再次打开，tl

parrish 地区检察官独自进来，

他走到帕特里克旁边的桌子旁

，坐在警长斯威尼

身后 他是特工 约书亚·卡特

布伦特·迈尔斯 和另外两个

赫斯基法官进入并

坐下反对帕特里克·拉尼

根 被告请起立

帕特里克慢慢站起来

拉尼根先生 我拿着一份

大陪审团对你的起诉书

上面写着你 谋杀了一个

名叫未知的

人 你读过这份起诉书并

与你的律师讨论过吗

是的 帕特里克爵士宣布

你的

无罪

抗辩是什么 你的无罪抗辩被接受 你

可以坐下

他暂停

了律师的任何问题

律师什么都没说

教区 站起来说，法官大人，

我们希望尽快将被告关进监狱

，

因为您知道他在基地医院，

现在

我刚刚和他的桑迪谈过，他

的秘书正在剪掉他的

照片和昨天新奥尔良出庭的故事

电话打来的时候，

她立刻找到了他

，是 lea pirege，

她打了声招呼，问他有没有让他的

办公室检查过

桑迪的虫子 援助 是的，

她在几个街区外的酒店房间里

，

并建议他们在那里见面

桑迪听到她的声音很兴奋

，会做任何她想做的事

莉亚微笑着迎接他，

为他们俩倒了咖啡，

她问他怎么样？

好起来了 医生说

他会好

起来的 她小声地问 有多严重

他把手伸进他的箱子里 取出一个

文件递给她

她看着照片哭了

可怜的帕特里克

她对自己说

可怜的宝贝

我是 抱歉，桑迪说

这是帕特里克的一封信，

她哭完了，又倒了更多的

咖啡

，

她

问医生认为他们会

随着时间的推移心理好转，

他还好吗？

他睡得不多，做噩梦，

但是 他正在好转

我猜他很幸运能活着

他总是说他们不会杀了他

她停顿并转移话题

让我们谈谈他的离婚

她站着 走到抽屉前 取出

厚厚的文件放在沙子前

你有没有在电视上看到特鲁迪

她问

是的

帕特里克讨厌她

她是个坏人

，而且在他们结婚的整个过程中她都不忠于他

去年他们在一起的时候都在这个档案里

帕特里克聘请了一名调查员来监视

她

有照片 她的情人 lance

maxa

在 patrick 不在家时从他家进进出出，

还有 lance 和

trudy 没穿衣服坐在 patrick 的泳池边的照片 桑迪拿着文件翻了一遍

，直到找到他微笑的照片

这将有助于

patrick 想要 离婚，你明白

他不会反抗

第 8 章

stefano 的故事

stefano 的律师建议他

接受 fbi 的安排

，对他的刑事指控将

被撤销

，不会对

他的客户提出任何指控，

他会告诉 fbi 他所知道的

关于搜索的一切 因为逮捕

帕特里克·拉尼根·斯特凡诺

很容易说服本

尼·

阿里西亚联邦调查局很快就会逮捕他

难以说服

Monarch sierra 保险公司的保罗

·阿德森和 Northern Case 保险公司的弗兰克·吉尔

詹姆斯派特工到这两个办公室

询问有关寻找和

抓捕帕特里克·拉尼根的问题

stefano 与这些人共事多年，

他赚了将近 100 万美元，

他又花了他的客户的 250 万美元

，他可以声称成功

他们找到了拉尼根，

他们没有找到 9000 万美元，

但事实并非如此 花了

有机会恢复它

benny arithia 到他的办公室来看 stefano

他听了三遍酷刑录音

他确信 patrick 已经告诉了他所

知道的

并且还不够

patrick 知道他有朝一日会被抓到

这就是为什么他把钱放在一个

女孩身上，这个女孩对包括帕特里克在内的所有人都隐瞒了这笔钱。

这是一个很棒的计划

，找到她需要多少钱他

问斯特凡诺

我猜十万没有

保证

我们不知道她在哪里，

但我们知道她来自哪里

，我们知道她可能会去

biloxi 联邦调查局是否知道我们仍在寻找

不

，如果你找到她，

我们会让她说话

stefano 说

，他们笑了

stefano 老实说，他打算告诉

他知道的大部分他知道的事情，

只知道有钱的巴西律师的名字，

现在她消失了

，他怀疑联邦调查局会跟踪她

，这笔钱不属于他们

，他希望联邦调查局从他的 生活

stefano 夫人非常焦虑

stefano 坐在 fbi 办公室的一张桌子

旁，他旁边的律师在

山下问了

很多事 stefano 说

观察人们获取信息 寻找

失踪人员

是不是受雇来寻找 patrick

lanigan 是 1992 年 3 月 28 日

谁雇用了你

benny arithia 钱被盗的人

你被雇用后做了什么

我立即飞往

巴哈马的拿骚

与发生盗窃的银行经理会面

为什么 arathia e 一个在

美国以外的账户，

它是 9000 万美元，没有人希望

这笔钱出现在比洛克西的一家银行

，它是从

华盛顿这里来

的，电汇从

1992 年 3 月 26 日

上午 9 点 30 分开始，10 点后 15 分钟到达

联合银行 在那里它坐了 9

分钟，然后从那里电汇到马耳他的一家银行

它被电汇到巴拿马

钱是如何从

银行

汇出的 我们认为拉尼根先生准备

了我

客户律师的虚假电汇指示 他的老 坚定

并在早上重新扎根这笔钱 汇出

的钱 他

自称是他的合伙人之一的 doug vetrano

他有完美的护照和

驾照 他对从华盛顿汇出的钱了如指掌

他有一张来自华盛顿的纸 办公室

允许他为公司接受这笔钱

，然后将其电汇到马耳他的银行

其他合伙人当然认为他

已经死了

他们没有理由怀疑有人在

追逐这笔钱

产生 9000

万美元的和解是极其秘密的，只有

少数人确切知道

这笔钱是何时何

地汇入的，所以你去 biloxi 寻找线索

，你发现律师事务所被

窃听了

我们确实

有两个

工作 找到拉尼根先生和钱

，然后找出他是如何

偷的 办公室

里的每个电话里都有 22 个窃听器 每张桌子下面的每个办公室

你有没有找到信号的去向

他问

没有，

但我认为他租了一个 船 他需要一个

地方躲起来听

谈话 船既简单又安全

1985 年，

作为 platte 和 Rockland 的一名军官，benny arethea 搬到了海岸，这是

一家大型国防承包商，有

过度计费和虚假索赔的

历史 小型师

收到了一份价值 9.9 亿美元的海军

合同，

而班尼对此负责

他讨厌与政府签订合同

，他讨厌

在 1988 年住在比洛克西，

他要求换一份工作

，但被

拒绝 研究了虚假索赔法案，

这鼓励人们报告

政府合同中的账单

然后他去找查尔斯博根帮助

向政府提出索赔

诉讼是在 1990 年 9 月提起的，

指控如果 benny 可以多付 6 亿

美元

证明这一点，他将获得

该金额的 15%

，其中三分之一将用于 bogan

律师事务所

向媒体提供信息

，该公司

在一年

platt 和 Rockland 同意偿还 benny 准备的

6 亿美元后失去业务

收到他的财产

，博根和合伙人准备

花掉他们

的钱，然后帕特里克消失了，他们的钱也消失了

stefano 的下一个提问者是沃伦

，我们在纽约失去了帕特里克后，他问你的小组是什么时候形成的

，我们

等待什么都没发生

我见过本尼 arithia 和他

同意支付 100 万美元来资助

搜索，

然后我会见了来自

Monarch sierra 和 Northern cays

Northern Case 的人 已经向寡妇支付了 250

万美元，

他们无法起诉以取回，因为

没有强有力的证据证明他

还活着，

他们同意给我们 50 万，

塞拉君主携带律师事务所的

保险，保护他们免遭员工盗窃，

并且 合伙人

他们不得不向公司支付 400 万美元

并同意再支付 100 万美元以

资助激增

十万美元奖励任何

有关

第九章失踪

的信息离婚的

斯威尼和格里姆肖拜访了帕特里克，

他们给他拍照并采集了他的

指纹，

然后这两个人在他的办公室加入了卡塔尔，

当胡椒的枪被发现时，一名联邦调查局指纹人员正在等待他们 在 patrick 的小

屋里，

grimshaw 从里面取出

了指纹

完美匹配 他

说枪上盖着拉尼根的

王子

当然是个好消息 他们认为

帕特里克要求为

以后与他的律师会面的所有会议提供不同的房间

哈亚尼博士很快做出了必要的

安排

帕特里克还要求

轮椅 护士将他推到桑迪所在的房间

正在等待

你有没有找到寻找错误的机器

帕特里克问

它几天后

就会到 你应该放松一点

你一直生活在恐惧中 总是看着

你的肩膀

但那些日子已经过去了

他们抓住你

放松 他们仍然 外面

他们有我，但没有钱

，而钱更重要

他们在得到之前不会休息

失去钱的人

花了一大笔钱试图找到它

你怎么知道

他们是谁

有很长的停顿

坐下 帕特里克说

桑迪拿走了

四个小时前莉亚给他的厚文件

，帕特里克立刻认出了

你什么时候看到她今天早上他焦急地问

她 很好发送她的爱并说

没有人跟踪她但

她让我交付这个

帕特里克打开信封拿出

一封三页的信读了它

桑迪翻阅文件并

拿出特鲁迪和兰斯的照片

帕特里克读完他说

我 再给她一封信

然后他看到桌子上的照片

干得好 不是很神奇 我从来没有在离婚案中看到这么多的证据 好吧 我在我们结婚将近两年后了解了兰斯 特鲁迪要去 生孩子所以我

什么也没说，

但一年后我开始收集

证据

我不确定什么时候需要它但我

知道婚姻已经结束

我一有机会就离开了小镇

桑迪离开了里德尔顿去见

特鲁迪和 兰斯

他告诉他们帕特里克知道她有一个

情人

特鲁迪表现得震惊

你否认

吗里德尔顿问

绝对她

说当然

补充兰斯那个男人撒谎的

帕特里克聘请调查员里德尔顿

告诉他们递给

他们一份报告

特鲁迪 和 lance 对视了一眼，

他们被抓住了，

但他们并不感到

羞耻 这些调查人员能在法庭上说话

吗？

震惊

特鲁迪开始哭泣

他没有得到我的女儿

她说

放松 里德尔顿说他不想要

孩子 他不是父亲

他们俩都认为那很好

里德尔顿得到了一份报告

他做了 dna 测试

他看着 lance 并补充说

恭喜

特鲁迪很生气

所以我们该怎么做

很简单

你放弃你对他的金钱和

财产的权利他给你离婚

和孩子

但我会失去她

说的一切

看看他对我做了什么

我得到了两个 他死的时候有 50 万

，现在保险公司

想把它全部拿回来

我可以起诉他精神虐待

吗不看这很简单你离婚了，孩子和

帕特里克把所有的钱都

存

起来 事情是私人的，

如果你不同意

他会把报告和照片交给

媒体

我在哪里签名

她

问已经过去了，

但是哈亚尼医生停下来看看他著名的

病人

欢迎来到我的办公室帕特里克说

他坐在一张小桌子旁

，现在是他的办公桌

，一个角落里放着一堆法律文件，

海恩尼说

你好吗，

我很好，他像往常一样回答，

帕特里克坐在床边，

看着他的 医生

我能告诉你一些

他真诚地问过的事情

帕特里克的

故事 第 10 章 法官卡尔·赫斯基

第二天下午开车去医院时

他想着帕特里克

在失踪前的几个月里身体发生了怎样的变化 他在失踪前

一个月体重稳步增加

他告诉

卡尔，他重达 150 公斤，

留着胡须，让头发留长

他看起来不像他们

在巴西发现的帕特里克，

尽管其他人

在他失踪几个月后就忘记了帕特里克

卡尔每天都想着他的朋友，

当他进入黑暗的房间时，很难相信他真的回来了 帕特里克

正坐在床上，他的衬衫脱了，

谢谢你的到来，他说，

烧伤很严重，卡尔说帕特里克穿上他的

衬衫 丑陋的帕特里克说，

医生说他们正在好转，

但我需要留在这里

，我对此没有问题，我是决定你住哪里的人

帕特里克似乎放松了一点，

谢谢卡尔，

你知道我不能住在 监狱

，我会在我去羊皮纸之前自杀

我不怪你

让我们谈谈一些愉快的事情

你说你不能保留这个案子

你什么时候会把它交给其他人

谁

很快

可能特拉塞尔

卡尔盯着帕特里克谁是 无法

保持目光接触

这与他

在

决定向 patrick 询问他的经历之前所认识的 patrick 不同，

你从哪里得到的下巴和鼻子

是真的买的，

你喜欢它们吗？

它们很帅，

我听说它们很漂亮 巴西的海滩

是的

长时间的沉默

carl 意识到 patrick 并不

急于说话，

但他不能在黑暗的房间里安静地坐着

再看 patrick 我不在这里作为你的法官

我不是你的律师

我是你的朋友

你可以 跟我谈谈

我想这听起来很浪漫 不是

消失了 变成了一个新的人

你所有的问题都抛在脑后

你梦想着不是吗 卡尔

我想每个人都这样做 有时

你计划

了多久 很长时间

我严重怀疑 孩子是

我的

卡尔 他们走下大厅 坐在

窗外

2 月 9 日的一个

星期天 帕特里克开始了 在 Verhall 的乡村商店

买了一些汽油

，在路上行驶了 3 公里 我

转向一条土路并停了下来，

我穿上一些防护服，然后

开车回到

陡峭山坡顶部的高速公路上，

我开车离开了

路边 怕车的时候 飞到

空中

它坠毁并侧翻

我的肩膀受伤但我能够爬

出来

那天早些时候我脱下防护服并把它们扔进西装外套 我藏了四罐

汽油

我把三罐放在里面

把第四个罐子里的汽油倒在车里

和车外

然后我退后点了根烟

扔进车里

它像炸弹一样爆炸

他喝了苏打水

我跑去找那辆旧摩托车我 d

hidden 把它推上山，

很快就骑走了我回到了我的小屋

我很害怕，

但我知道我正在奔向自由，

一个新的生命

帕特里克死了，

这很令人

兴奋，那个在车里燃烧的人呢

帕特里克

卡尔差点问

相反，他

说你不怕胡椒会看到你吗？

帕特里克研究了他的脚几

秒钟然后说

胡椒不见了

卡尔

在他们吃完后点了一份披萨他说

你在小屋

是的，大约是 11 点 30 分。

我报道了 窗户所以没有 我会

看到灯，

然后我剪了头发，把头发染成

深棕色，我剃了胡子

震惊

，她会成为一个好寡妇大约

一个月，

然后她会得到人寿保险金

胡椒的枪帐篷和睡袋

在一张床下被发现

他们是怎么到那里的

帕特里克看着墙壁

我 不知道

你去哪儿了

卡尔

问法官晚上玩得很

开心，第二天他打电话给帕特里克，

看看他们能不能再做一次

他带来的披萨

你为什么要退休帕特里克问

你怎么知道我要退休

我没有告诉很多人而且你

在巴西

我有一个间谍卡尔

当然不是

我不能冒险联系这里的任何人

我有一个律师朋友那里有

一个女人

现在我明白了

她是那个有钱的人

帕特里克笑着笑

了 关于钱你想知道什么

卡尔

一切都

在哪里 剩下多少

不能告诉你它在哪里

现在钱比我拿的多

你是怎么做到的

帕特里克穿过房间

伸了个懒腰，

然后坐在床沿上。

我很幸运，

他低声说

我要离开卡尔

，不管有没有钱

没用 我还是要

离开

我们昨晚到了你的葬礼

对了

我在橙色海滩呆了

几天 听葡萄牙语

录音带

我还听了我

在办公室周围录制的对话

我整理了关于 arithea

我学会了如何航行

，然后躲在帆船里，

从那里

看

biloxi 你为什么要这样做

课程

晚上有成百上千的人我听了他们并

整理了重要的部分

我知道

办公室

里所说的一切

我用假护照说我

是 doug vetrano 飞到拿骚

并去了银行 电汇进来时

我正坐在经理办公室

喝咖啡

我立即把钱电汇

到银行 马耳他 指示我离开银行时将其

电汇到巴拿马

第 11 章

莉亚的故事

保罗·米兰达给女儿打的最后一个电话

是两天前

她在新奥尔良的一家旅馆里

她很害怕 尽管拼命

不给

他看 生气她不肯

透露更多细节

，他担心她，他

厌倦了到处跟着他的男人他

完成工作后他走到

停车场他的

车上 正想着往下看，

一辆红色的小货车停在他的车旁

，他走近司机下车

打开后门，

但保罗没有注意到

奥斯玛拦住了保罗，粗暴地将

他推入货车，车门关上，

枪指着 他的眼睛和一个声音

告诉他保持

安静，面包车跑了

一个半小时后停

在一座农舍后面，保罗被带进了

里面，

他不会受到伤害，除非

他试图

逃避打电话给 警方告诉

他们，

保罗的儿子在里约被绑架，打电话给

ava 公寓的经理

和她的一个

朋友，消息是同样的

保罗米兰达被绑架

，警方正在调查

eva 住在纽约，

她经常搬家 打电话给她父亲，没有人

接听，

然后她打电话给她哥哥，

得知绑架

他快疯了

不，没有

违反帕特里克的具体指示要钱

她打电话给 h 我用

葡萄牙语说

patrick 是 leah

她说

尽量不表现出有

什么问题 他用葡萄牙语问

他不高兴听到她的声音

这是我父亲

她说

并告诉他 paulo 失踪的故事

我必须回家

不 leah 他 冷静地说这是个陷阱

他们不是要钱 他们想要

你

她玩弄头发 看着

人来人往

所以我该怎么办

去新奥尔良 当你

到达那里

时叫桑迪 她在机场等着她

想 她的父亲和

他们可能对他做的可怕事情

因为她而伤害了他而

她无能为力

帕特里克·桑迪

早上哈亚尼博士看着帕特里克的房间时帕特里克正

坐在靠窗的椅子上看着

紧闭的窗帘

帕特里克你好吗

他

一分钟后问帕特里克回答我很好

但我根本没睡

你现在很安全

帕特里克太阳升起

当他离开时帕特里克起身走到

门 你睡得好吗

门口的守卫

每天早上都问

我睡得很安全 eddie 谢谢

patrick

说他每天早上都这样

他回到自己的房间做一些

练习

每天的例行程序都是一样的 他

想成为 danilo 再一次

在他的小房子里过着平静的生活

他想沿着

蓬塔普拉的街道走在乡下

他想念

巴西他想念伊娃

她温柔的抚摸她美丽的微笑

他不能没有

她他活不下去之前

为什么不能 他不会再次逃跑

他会和艾娃过上完美的生活

他会让她处于危险

之中现在他必须保护她

如果他能再做一次

还是让他的运气

在早上 8 点结束桑迪遇见切割

者你还记得那个电话给你吗

13 天前收到

桑迪问

巴西刀具的女士

说他有，桑迪继续说

我见过她几次

她是帕特里克的律师

他很快解释了

他对莉亚的大部分了解，

尽管他从未提到她的名字然后

他问 有关 stefano 调查员

变得小心翼翼

你怎么

知道这位来自巴西的女士对

stefano 了如指掌 记得她给了你他的名字

他仍在试图找到我的家族 我

想阻止

他 你怎么知道

因为他的手下 巴西绑架

了那个女人的父亲

，他张开嘴，

看着天花板

，她知道钱在哪里是

有道理的

就像受过治疗的帕特里克一样，

一切都与

钱有关，我们无能为力

是的，

对斯特凡诺施加压力

告诉他

桑迪停在海滨别墅前

莉亚笑着回答

了门 桌子上是一个盒子，旁边

是 整齐排列的文件

这是 aritheaphile

利亚说

帕特里克准备好了

他们坐在厨房的一张小桌子旁

吃了

帕特里克她问

帕特里克没事 烧伤

好转了

他吃了 ab

对不起，我忘了问你

父亲的事

我今天和我兄弟谈过了

，但仍然没有任何消息

，

我不能回家，我不能留在这里，

我很抱歉，利亚

他问了更多问题

一般性问题 不是关于

绑架，他吃饭时

她没有碰她的食物，

当他吃完时，他们搬到了桌子

，上面放着盒子和

文件 磁带是

我要

告诉你

的一切的证据 艾西娅的说法从一开始就是假的

她说得很慢

benny arithia 制定了

欺骗他的公司和政府的计划

他得到了一些非常优秀的律师的帮助

帕特里克的老

事务所 参议员

博根在华盛顿帕特里克的表弟

是新合伙人，当时

他没有被包括在 arathia 计划中，

但他知道发生了一些事情，

他发现保密是

因为 arithea

，他很耐心，

他假装没有 没什么，

但他正在收集

证据 很多证据都在他的盒子里

解释声称是假的

arathia 在帕斯卡古拉经营新的沿海造船厂

这是铂金罗克兰的一个小部门

我知道

他们有大量的国防合同并且

以欺骗政府而闻名

没错，

一个新的海岸正在为海军制定一项庞大的

建筑计划

arithia 写了虚假的工作记录，

声称

为从未存在过的员工完成了数千小时的工作

他对材料饮水杯收取了令人难以置信的高价

，例如每个 30 美元

他

几乎没有写成堆的文件，上面写着他的名字

他保存了良好的记录

CD3

第 12 章

stefano 的故事

第三天继续下山回来了

我们将从昨天停下的地方开始

作为一个隐藏的好地方的历史

我们在拉尼根上整理了一个文件

并将其翻译成葡萄牙语

w 让电脑艺术家为

他的外貌拍照

然后我们赶往巴西并聘请了

我们能找到的最好的调查

员 1994 年 4 月 我们找到了

改变拉尼根下巴和鼻子的医生

我们知道他在巴西

斯特凡诺的第四次会议很早就开始了

提问者是一个新的 Oliver

你说的是

改变拉尼根下巴和鼻子的医生 Oliver

说继续

stefano 在他的椅子上舒服

了很长一段时间 我们没有发现任何东西

然后在 94 年末我们被一家

调查公司联系了 亚特兰大 冥王星

集团 他们说他们可能有一些

信息 我希望

他们有一个神秘的客户

声称知道有关拉尼根的一些事情

显然我很

感兴趣 客户毫不奇怪地想要

很多钱

如果他们的客户当时期望获得丰厚的回报，这是令人鼓舞的

客户知道拉尼根在 95 年 7 月仍然

有很多钱

冥王星集团找到

我并说他们的客户可以带我们

去一个 plac e 在拉尼根最近居住的巴西，

我们

在将钱电汇到巴拿马的一家银行后达成了 5 万美元的协议。

我得到了小城伊塔希的一栋公寓楼的地址，

我们向经理展示了我们的帕特里克照片

他说这个人的名字叫约翰霍斯特，一个

德国人，他租了两个月的公寓，

那么冥王星集团

六个月来我们没有听到他们太多消息

，

然后在今年一月，他们

退还

了客户需要的钱，并准备好了

用几百万美元告诉我们一切，我们可以

确切地知道我们的人在哪里，

但他们的客户在付钱之前不会说话

，我不会付钱，直到他们的客户

说

事件 underhill 在喝咖啡休息后加入了 Oliver

看到烧伤的照片 stefano 先生

和我们 联邦调查局

因你的人造成的伤害而被起诉

现在告诉我们你是怎么做到的

我不在

我知道他会被电击

我不知道这会导致 s erious Burns

underhill 和 Oliver 不可置信地对视了一眼，

低声说

他们都问了一些

关于抓捕和审讯的问题，

最后

他们

问了 Lanigan 先生审问过程中最重要的问题，

他告诉我们的钱不多 钱在哪里，

但它已经被转移

了 提问的人

认为拉尼根先生不知道

钱在哪里

拉尼根先生提到了一个我不认识的合伙人，

他们再次耳语然后停顿了

斯特凡诺紧张地等待

然后 门开了，汉密尔顿詹姆斯

走进来，沃伦跟着走进来，

我一直在隔壁房间里听

简笑着说

，突然我想知道你是不是说

实话，

斯特凡诺更

焦虑当然

我当然

是你听说过这个名字吗 eva miranda

她是里约的律师

patrick 的一个朋友 病了

这让我很困扰 杰克

我想你确切地知道她是谁

你想找到她

我不知道是什么 你说的是

stefano 说每周一次的

underhill 说

他在撒谎

我已经向里约警方核实

了绑架者的任何消息，

所以米兰达先生在哪里

我不知道你在说什么

简看着桌子的另一端

仍然躺在山下说

和奥利弗第 13 章

ava

leah 没有 一开始没在超市看到那个男人

，然后她转身看到他的绿色

眼睛盯着她

她平静地走开了

几分钟后

她再次看到他

隐藏着他的脸

但看着她的一举一动

她害怕

但走路时保持冷静

穿过商店，

她又在商店里看到了他，

然后看到他

背着一无所有的东西走过停车场

她的

零钱

她上了车，朝海滨别墅的方向开去，

尽管她知道

一公里后她再也回不去了。她迅速转身，

看到他在她身后三辆车

她非常想见

帕特里克，这样她就可以对他大喊大叫

这不是他们协议的一部分，

她开车保持冷静，因为

帕特里克教她绿

眼睛的男人现在没有跟着她，

但她知道一个小时后其他人会看着

她进入

彭萨科拉机场并买了一张机票

下一班去迈阿密的航班

在迈阿密 她买了一张去圣保罗的单程机票

为什么不去她的国家

护照检查站的代理人

看到了联邦调查局正在

寻找一名 31 岁的年轻巴西妇女的通知

并发出警报

一位经理出现并说

你能不能进来一下海盗小姐

他指着一排

门她问有什么问题

当他们走进一个小房间时不仅仅是几个问题 房间他

问她去圣保罗的原因

然后他问

根据我们的记录你的行李在哪里

八天前

八天你进入这个国家没有行李

似乎很奇怪

没有行李旅行不是犯罪吗

她问

没有 但是在美国使用假护照是一种犯罪行为

你知道一个名叫 ava

miranda

leah 的人的心脏停止

了她的脸

沉下她知道追逐已经结束

了长桌上堆满了文件和

文件 arithea 盒子空置在

角落里

patrick 和沙地第 14 章

定居点

起初

当 patrick 被发现时 bogan 和

vetrano 很高兴，但很快就发现

钱并没有跟着他回到

biloxi 然后他们想起了 stefano

在他们的 办公室

他们已经忘记了帕特里克的录音带

现在他们担心

办公室里说的太多了

你认为我们会得到钱

吗 vitrano 问

没有

有很长的停顿

如果我们没有的话我们会很幸运 被起诉的

桑迪上午 10 点去了巴黎办公室

教区要求开会

有很多

关于谋杀的信息缺失，他想

知道死因是什么

教区说

我有 一个建议，如果你的客户给

我信息，我可以将他的罪行减少为

意外杀人而不是

死刑，刑罚是 20 年监禁

他会考虑

这样做，

然后我们会谈谈

桑迪回到他在 biloxi

nugget 酒店的房间

他组织了他的办公室

他的第一个来访者是 j murray

riddleton 特鲁迪的律师

riddleton 给了桑迪他们建议的

离婚协议

他们知道它会改变为

帕特里克想要的任何东西

桑迪问

米姆斯说他没有

塞桑迪笑着说，他把一组

帕特里克烧伤的照片滑过

桌子

你起诉联邦调查局时这些照片在报纸

上 联邦调查局没有找到帕特里克

我们起诉他们是为了让人们

对帕特里克产生同情

无论如何 造成这些

伤害的人正在为

Stefano Northern 工作

詹姆斯和

他办公室的几个人打来电话 教区和桅杆的美国

检察官

在他的酒店房间办公室会见了桑迪

两名法庭记者也

在场 并

讨论了对帕特里克

的指控，政府的指控很严重，但

与死刑相比，它们很小，

我们希望你放弃它们，这样我们就可以

专注于谋杀 rge

我们有一个报价，其中包括金钱

我们对这笔钱没有索赔 简

说它不是从政府那里偷来的

，那你错了

桑迪解释了 arithea 如何

与博根的公司合作，骗取

政府 6 亿美元

他 告诉他们文件和

录音带

然后他说

这是我们的建议

我们将交出文件和录音带

帕特里克将退还

所有钱

以换取政府将放弃

对

他的巴西律师阿瓦米兰达的指控

必须立即释放

詹姆斯看着 地板

，今天必须完成，

桑迪补充说，

否则我的客户将保留这笔钱，

销毁证据并在监狱中度过美好时光

让我们谈谈这个说，

一个政府

官员带着简的

好主意桑迪一边放磁带一边说

在磁带播放器中

，日期是 1992 年 1 月 14 日，

他说

，他播放了

bogan vetrano 和 arethea 之间的对话，提到

了参议员的合作

温柔 伙计们，

这只是他告诉他们的一个例子，

当

其他人离开房间开始谈话

时，桅杆很快就变得很明显，

其他人已经做出了决定，

所以我们会接受它，他说

表现得好像他没有 Care

是的 sprawling 说

我们把钱拿回来看起来很好

patrick 在监狱里呆了很长时间

我们逮捕了更重要的

罪犯 小组回到了桑迪的办公室

蔓延为他们

谈论了这笔钱 你的客户

愿意退还多少钱 他问桑迪

所有 9000 万的

斯特凡诺夫人又睡得

很好 联邦调查局已经离开了他们的街道，

邻居们不再给

她打电话了，她的丈夫很放松，

然后在凌晨 5 点 30 分，电话响了

，当她接电话时，她问是谁打来的

hamilton james fbi

天哪，她说 杰克，又是联邦调查局

，

斯特凡诺接了电话，

早上好，杰克，这是汉密尔顿詹姆斯，

我想让你知道我们已经找到

了女孩 eva miranda，

她很安全，

所以你可以告诉你的男人不要

再找她了 或者她的

stefano 坐起来 他们最后的希望消失

了 寻找钱的工作终于

结束了

恭喜他

说 杰克

我派了一些人去里约

你有 24 小时释放她的父亲

如果他到那时我会逮捕你

还有arithia，可能还有monarch sierra 的addison 先生和north case 的

jill 先生，

我听到你

的声音，电话安静了

斯蒂法诺夫人在浴室里，门锁着，

吓得不敢面对他

斯蒂法诺去厨房

煮咖啡，

他已经厌倦了 benny

arithia 他等了一个小时，然后

打电话给他，

当 stefano 打电话给

benny 知道他的梦想结束了

他希望找到钱然后

像 patrick 一样消失，

但他仍然有 100 万美元，

而且他在其他国家有朋友

是时候离开

了

然后在黎明时分去纽约，

联邦调查局在佛罗里达州博卡拉顿

看班尼的家，

他的瑞典女友还在那儿，

他们认为她很快就会离开

，跟着她会容易得多。

车停时从屋子里出来 后面有人扶他

一个声音

在你左边 300米是农舍

有电话

去那里求救

我有枪

你要是掉头我就

在下午2点杀了你 talbot mims 和一名来自

Northern case 的经理到达酒店

桑迪将他们带到他的办公室

hal ladd 和一名来自 monarch sierra 的律师

加入了他们

桑迪重复了关于

帕特里克遭受酷刑的信息

并提醒他们 stefano

正在为三个客户工作

benny arethea 和他们的两个 公司

你打算如何证明这一点

问 mims

桑迪打开一扇门并要求 jane’s

很高兴地加入他们 james 描述

了 stefano 告诉他们关于

寻找 patrick the cap 的事情 真的和

折磨

都是用arithea

和两家

保险公司提供

的钱完成

的 追回

支付给特鲁迪·拉尼根的 250 万美元，

我们希望你放弃诉讼

，

如果你这样做，

大部分

钱都已经花掉了

好的，

我们同意

桑迪给了他们和解

协议并要求他们离开，这样他

就可以和小伙子和他的客户谈谈

你的和解有点不同他

告诉他们

你付给斯特凡诺的钱是他们的两倍

而且你的现金比

北方案子多得多

你有多少想法

塞拉君主科恩 律师

焦急地问

帕特里克什么，

他非常担心

孩子

她六岁了，她妈妈花钱

很快

帕特里克想要一百万的 25

到一个特别账户，作为

她母亲不能使用的钱，

另外

他想要同样的金额来支付他的

法律费用

总共支付了 50 万

非常安静，

这样您的客户就不会因为他受伤的照片而感到尴尬

公司急于完成

我们会做的

科恩说

桑迪递给他他们

和解协议的副本

并

离开了第 15 章的

最终安排

ava 8 点出狱 上午 30 点，

马克·伯克把她赶到他的车上，

带她去了机场，一架小型

喷气式飞机正等着送她去纽约，

他告诉她，从纽约她会

去伦敦，

艾娃闭上眼睛想到了

帕特里克，

然后她 注意到车载电话并

要求使用它

她给在巴西的父亲打了电话

并含泪交谈

她承诺很快就会回家

她在美国的法律工作

快结束了 她想念她

在纽约的家 英国

航空公司值机柜台的人疑惑地看着她，

因为她没有行李，

她努力控制自己的神经，

她不能再次被捕，

她爱帕特里克，

但这在休息室里太过分了

，她喝咖啡，叫

桑迪

，你是吗？ 好吧，他问

我很好，桑迪，

我在肯尼迪机场，

在去伦敦的路上，

帕特里克

太好了，

我们与政府达成和解了

1.13 亿

桑迪等着她说些什么，她什么

时候说了

我会得到指示 当你到

伦敦时

给我打电话 当你到酒店

告诉帕特里克我仍然爱他

即使

在早上晚些时候进了监狱桑迪会见

里德尔顿查看离婚

和解协议

特鲁迪已经签署

了里德尔顿不想 再次见到她

，

我们将签署它 桑迪说

有一项新的安排涉及您的

客户，她与北方

案件的

诉讼他们将放弃

对

特鲁迪里德尔顿张嘴的诉讼

桑迪给了他一个 他好奇地阅读了一份北方

案件保险和解协议的副本

多么令人惊喜

桑迪告诉他的另一件事是关于

为阿什莉妮可有 250 000 的特别账户

里德尔顿笑着问其他任何事情

就是离婚结束了

帕特里克 通过侧门被带进法院

他穿着桑迪买的新衣服

他苍白而消瘦，但

走路似乎没有困难

实际上帕特里克觉得很棒

帕特里克开始了

我有一个车祸

案 司机被杀

，两个人受伤

这是卡车的错，桑迪，

但司机声称我们客户的

车超速

我们找到了一位目击者

克洛维斯古德曼先生 81 岁

他试图帮助车上的受伤人员，

但

他不能不跟任何人说什么就离开

后来我们找到了他

但他还是太难过了

，

克洛维斯一个人住在乡下

，我问我是否可以去拜访他，

他是一个孤独的老人， 不信任

律师，

我们喝咖啡，谈了

一切，除了沉船，

当我问起这件事时，

他轻声告诉我他在那儿，

但他不能说，但

我回去了，我们交换了更多的

故事，

我带他去吃饭 我们停下

来喝了几杯啤酒，

但一个月后他仍然无法谈论

沉船事故

他准备好

了 他眼里噙满泪水

，想帮助车上的家人，

他们没有超速

我们去受审

，克洛维斯·古德曼是我见过的最好的证人

陪审团给了我们的客户 230 万

美元

我们成了朋友

当他生病不能一个人生活时，

我把他送进了疗养院并

照顾他的财务

，那时

我是他唯一的朋友，

他多年没有亲戚的消息

他在九十岁的一月病得很重

二

我把他送到了医院 d

每天

2 月 6 日来访 他死了

桑迪 喘着粗气

紧紧闭上眼睛

clovis 没有被埋没

他问

不

身体

，但当他的身体被烧毁时他已经死了

桑迪在房间里走来走去，然后

靠在墙上

让我们听听剩下的他说

我确定你

桑迪在克洛维斯工作的咖啡店拜访了克洛维斯的孙女

我有个好消息要告诉你 他说

他们坐在一张桌子旁，尽可能高效地喝咖啡

他告诉她

帕特里克的故事

她觉得

给他死刑很有趣她说

他没有杀任何人

车里的尸体已经死了

他只是偷走

了尸体 克洛维斯古德曼是你的祖父吗？

她眯着眼睛看着

他他烧了克洛维斯，

为什么

他必须有一具尸体

克洛维斯是他的客户和朋友，

她看起来很困惑

破坏尸体是犯罪，

这意味着克洛维斯的家人可以 起诉我的

客户

她笑着说

现在我明白了

桑迪也笑了

是的

这就是为什么我在这里

我的客户想和你达成一个非常

安静的和解

你最多付多少

钱

桑迪给了她一份和解协议，让她

签署并写了一张支票

艾娃离开了她的伦敦酒店，走了

很长一段路

她看了看商店的橱窗，然后

停下来吃午饭

她听了那些不知道她是谁的快乐的人，他们

不知道

关心

她觉得她更像 lea pirege 而不是 ava

miranda

她开始购物而不

注意价格

她现在是一个非常富有的女人

下午两点她

与德意志银行伦敦办事处的经理会面

他的银行 将

按照她的指示

从苏黎世办事处电汇

1.13 亿美元到华盛顿

办事处 大开曼岛持有 650 万

美元 百慕大的财务顾问持有 400

万美元

和 720 万美元在

卢森堡 瑞典女士离开本尼·阿拉希亚的

家，把行李放在他的宝马车里，

她飞快地

跑去机场，坐飞机去

伦敦，

当她降落时 官员们

正在看着她

帕特里克坐在桌子的尽头，

桑迪在他的右边，教区在他的

左边，

因为政府指控已经被

撤销，教区感到有压力

要从帕特里克那里为国家伸张正义，

你可以忘记谋杀特里帕特里克说

我没有 不杀

任何人 车里的人已经死了

四天

教区质疑他并接受

帕特里克是对的，

但他不会完全放弃

看起来像在监狱里呆一年他

说在羊皮纸上呆一年应该有好处

你

确定，

除了我不会去帕奇曼

你没有尸体

你不知道谁被烧死了

我不会告诉直到我们达成协议

放弃指控

你无法

赢得家庭 死者

不想起诉帕特里克·桑迪说

你不能证明任何事情对我

没有证人而且

证据不够好

你不能让我们看起来像傻瓜

教区说

给我们一些东西

我会 说我犯有破坏

尸体的罪行，但我不会坐牢

你可以向法官解释

家人不想起诉我

你可以谈谈酷刑以及

我所经历的

一切 你可以做到 教区

，你会看起来很好，

但没有监狱

教区想一分钟

，你会告诉我们死者的名字

我会的，

但只有在我们达成协议之后，

好吧，

但我必须与特鲁塞尔法官交谈，

他将有 也同意

帕特里克对桑迪

教区微笑 站起来离开

哦

我差点忘

了地方检察官说

你能告诉我们关于胡椒

斯卡伯勒的什么

我可以给你他的新名字和护照

号码

桑迪教区和法官 trussell 花了

几个小时制定了一个请求

同意减少对

帕特里克·

桑迪在医院把它拿给他

他们大声宣读了协议，

帕特里克签署了

桑迪注意到他已经

在他的酒店房间办公室里收拾东西桑迪的

电话响

了，是杰克·斯蒂法诺在

楼下想谈谈

我不在这儿

好奇心 听证会定于五

点在法院举行

patrick 穿上新裤子和一件

大白衬衫

他与 hayani 握手并

感谢他的友谊

两周后，病人和

囚犯 patrick 离开了

他的律师所在的医院 他的身边和他的

警卫跟在后面

本来应该是秘密听证会

以完成秘密协议，

但人们

在不到 30 分钟内就听说了这件事，半个城市

都知道

，法庭上挤满了

patrick 对摄影师微笑，因为

他被带到了 陪审室

卡尔进来让守卫

在大厅

里等你什么时候离开他问

我不知道

很快

我可以和你一起去

如果你真的离开你会离开

吗 他现在有机会消失

你会这样做吗

不 我不会离开

但我不怪你

每个人都想消失 carl

在生活中的某个时候 每个人都想

离开

问题可以被抛在脑后

trussell 法官进入法庭

patrick 是 带人穿过门，

站在法官面前的桑迪旁边

他没有看他的听众

拉尼根·特鲁塞尔先生首先说

你要求我们减少

从死刑谋杀到

摧毁

尸体的指控 人们对

摧毁死者感到惊讶 body

parish 解释了案件的最新进展

接下来有人建议本

法院接受

对破坏尸体指控的认罪

教区先生

和教区

先生讲述了克洛维斯的故事 你的认罪是什么 拉尼根先生 法官

问

有罪

帕特里克说

坚定但不骄傲

国家有没有推荐的

惩罚

教区 走到他的桌子旁

翻阅他的笔记 然后回到

法官的桌子

是的 法官大人

我 有一封来自

密西西比州子午线的迪娜·

帕斯特尔小姐的信 她是克洛维斯·古德曼的孙子 他在信中将一份副本交给了

特鲁塞尔 波斯特女士要求本法院

不要惩罚拉尼根先生烧掉她

祖父的尸体

他已经死了四年多

了 家人不想再

受苦，

所以州政府建议判处

12 个月的监禁，

他们默默地开车到路易斯安那州，

然后桑迪说

我今天下午有一个非常有趣的访客，

真的是

谁，

杰克·斯蒂法诺，

他在酒店拜访了我，

他说他是 对不起，他的孩子

们在抓到你时对你造成了如此大的伤害，

他告诉我巴西的

那个人向他提供了有关你

和冥王星集团

的信息，他直接问我 ava 是否出售了他好奇的

信息，

因为他找到了他的人，

但没有

过去三年没拿到钱 我

在睡梦中被一百个人追着

他们都是杰克·斯蒂法诺雇佣的

我终于厌倦了桑迪

我放弃了

迪 sappearing 是一种冒险，直到你

知道有人试图找到你

并且正在监视你所做的一切

我偷了太多钱桑迪

当我得知他们已经在

巴西时他们不得不来追我我知道结局会来

所以我决定做 这是我的方式

不是他们的

帕特里克呼吸沉重看着

窗外并试图整理他的

想法奖励是我的

想法桑迪阿瓦飞到亚特兰大她遇到了

冥王星小组

我们付钱给

他们我们给了斯蒂法诺信息

桑迪慢慢地转过嘴张开

你 撒谎他说

我知道你在撒谎

不

我们从 stefano 那里收了 150

万美元

现在

可能藏在瑞士 其余的

你不知道它在哪里

她一直在照顾

它 当我看到她的

桑迪吓得说不出

话时

我会知道帕特里克继续说我知道他们会抓住

我我知道他们试图让我说话

但我不知道这会发生

他指着 他左脚踝上方的手术标记

他们差点杀了我

我终于放弃了，告诉他们

艾娃

到那时她已经走了

，他们差点杀了你的钱也是如此，

桑迪说

那是真的，

但是在我被捕两个小时后

，艾娃被称为比洛克西的切割者

和 他给华盛顿的联邦调查局打了电话

，这救了我的命，

桑迪带他去了他母亲家，

早上开车离开了帕特里克醒来时微笑着

他的躲藏生活结束了

他和他的母亲谈了开车

在城市周围购物，

然后帕特里克去了 到机场，

他飞到亚特兰大，然后从那里飞往

美丽的法国，

他最后一次见到阿瓦是一个月前在里

约，

她几乎说服他再次逃跑并

躲藏起来，

但他厌倦了逃跑，

他们在她的公寓附近告别了

他 他吻了她然后

离开她哭着离开

他飞回pontapura并开始

等待

周日火车从nice

到达

aches patrick乘出租车去酒店galici

她以两个名字预订了一个房间

ava m iranda 和 patrick lanigan，

但她还没到，店员

告诉他，

他去房间收拾行李，睡着

了

，醒来时梦见她，他去散步，

也许他们会住在这里，

他们会在这里住一个星期 或者然后

回到里约，

但也许里约不会回家

感觉自由

帕特里克想到处生活

，体验不同的文化

，学习不同的语言，

他不担心

他等到天黑

，然后慢慢地走回酒店，

她不在

那里没有消息

他给伦敦的酒店打了电话，被

告知她昨天离开了

他给她父亲打了电话

她在伦敦 保罗说

他不会再说什么

帕特里克等了两个小时然后打电话给

桑迪

她失踪了 他说

现在很害怕

桑迪没有收到她的消息

帕特里克 两天来一直疼

走路 打电话给桑迪和保罗

一个人在他的房间里 他伤心地哭

了 第三天他喝了太多酒 他

要求店员保留

办公桌上的一个信封 miranda 女士 如果她来了

他飞往里约

他不知道为什么

她太聪明不能去里约

帕特里克教会了她如何

消失

除非她想要他们给

你，否则没人会找到 ava