Who was that guy? The file portrays a frustrated and bitter intellectual; one more like many others, except for his evident capacity to assume dangerous attitudes. However, the character who had kidnapped Marques was, without a doubt, a professional, and not only in terms of literature. The whole kidnap operation seemed to be executed by someone extremely familiar with violence and simulation. Like the real, imminent danger threatening the king in a chess game, the Professor devises an intricate plan to regain his son, in an almost suicidal attempt to win the game against one of the best players of his kind. His contender, furious, puts into practice his usual tactics, successful so many times in the past. With the characteristic coldness of an individual whose actions are conceived through pain, this ingenious man conceives a near-impossible plan. Will he, an academic man of language, be able to defeat the giant, hoping for the same luck that David enjoyed when facing Goliath,...