There is a great deal you need to know, and none of it is what you think.

I have replayed that moment so many times, the stranger in the dark suit, the box, those four flat words, you walked straight into his trap, and what strikes me most, looking back, is how completely the meaning of the word trap would invert over the next hour.

When Mr.

Vance said it, standing over me with that unreadable expression, the word landed like a blow.

I thought I had been deceived.