A successful banker must have more wealth -- for his peace of mind. He drifts into the international black market in human organs. Then he devises a new illegal enterprise on the fringes of this. Equally compulsive about philandering, he makes a few too many enemies. Although the pivot of this story, he does not dominate it. There also are his wife and her detectives, his girlfriend, irate husbands, his brother, his partners in crime, his only real friend, and international investigators. Of them all, he is the most consistently charming, the most entrepreneurial, and the most obsessed. Someone else, though, has persistence -- and an itch. The hare and the tortoise, redux, but not quite .