A spectacularly original thriller about a professional torturer who has a strict code, a mysterious past, and a dangerous conviction that he can save the life of an innocent child Geiger has a gift: he knows a lie the instant he hears it. And in his business-called "information retrieval" by its practitioners-that gift is invaluable, because truth is the hottest thing on the market. Geiger's clients count on him to extract the truth from even the...

While on a two-week in-home babysitting job in Maryland, Barbara one day discovers herself bound to a bed, subject to torture from her charges and their neighborhood cronies.