"Early Monday morning, I was oblivious to the rest of the world and its problems. This was the way life was supposed to be, only it rarely seemed to turn out so well. At least not in my experience, which was limited when it came to anything that might be considered the 'good life.'" Chapter 3, pg. 16

"'There's been a kidnapping in the Buckhead section of Atlanta. Woman in her thirties. White woman, well-to-do. She's the wife of a judge, which makes it federal. More important, she isn't the first.'" Chapter 12, pg. 50

"I knew from my hurried reading of the case notes that there were more than 220 women currently listed as missing in the United States and that at least seven of the disappearances had been linked by the Bureau to 'white slave rings.'" Chapter 14, pg. 55

"The modern-day godfather. A forty-seven-year-old Russian now living in America...