About the book: 1972 / "...and the trail ends in a movie theater in Times Square." The transistor managed to catch the dramatic voice of the announcer in the middle of a sentence “I repeat, the ransom demand includes three conditions: a million dollars in gold bullion, the release of twenty-eight criminals from various prisons in the country, a free air corridor to deliver them to Cuba or Algeria. If these demands are not satisfied within forty-eight hours from this midnight, the corpses of Senator George Vardon and Samuel Sellers will be dumped in some public place and their place will be taken by two new hostages - people of equal public importance. The demands of the kidnappers will increase».