Two brothers bound by blood, divided by hate ...
FBI Agent Aloysius Pendergast's greatest enemy is one who has stalked him all his life -- his diabolical brother Diogenes, a shrewd and brilliant villain. Now Diogenes has committed the perfect crime and issued the ultimate challenge: stop me if you can...
Framed for murder and on the run, with only the help of his old friend NYPD lieutenant Vincent D'Agosta, Pendergast must stop his brother. But how can he defeat a man who is his intellectual equal -- one who has had twenty years to plan his horrendous crime?