That is the paradox at the heart of financial crime, the one amateurs never grasp: the more elaborately you hide money, the more evidence you create, because every hiding place has to be built, and everything built can be found.

My wife thought she had buried her theft.

What she had actually done was write it all down, in a dozen places, in a language she could not read and I had spent twenty years learning to.

She had handed the case to a translator.

Chapter 8 — Still in Control

By midnight, Wendy had thoroughly convinced herself that she was still in complete control of the situation, which was just what I needed her to believe.