Sold to hollywood for nearly $3 million, this blockbuster thriller pulls readers into its stranglehold of terror in the tradition of cape fear. Having survived a childhood of beatings and psychological torture, successfu...Sold to hollywood for nearly $3 million, this blockbuster thriller pulls readers into its stranglehold of terror in the tradition of cape fear. Having survived a childhood of beatings and psychological torture, successful manhattan lawyer jacob schiff cherishes his stable family life with his wife, a psychiatric social worker, and his son.