Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 Summary

Chapter one begins with Dr. Michael Bekker daydreaming at his trial. He hates his defense attorney and thinks the whole trial is a circus and does not believe he is being judged by a trial of his peers. His hair is cut short but he has grown a bushy blond beard to cover his facial scars. The trial was twenty-one days long, and all that time Bekker had been languishing in jail with his "medicine." Bekker knows he will be found guilty but has a plan for escape, and he focuses on his plans as the jury files out of the room. He has gym shorts under his suit, a razor taped beneath his testicles, a Sox baseball cap under his belt, and white socks and tennis shoes.

Raymond Shaltie, a sheriff's deputy, comes to take him to his...