"Give a man enough rope and he's liable to hang -- not himself, but the rope giver. Michael Vickers was well aware of this; but he had to take the risk. He had to know which of his three 'good friends' -- all admittedly in love with his wife -- had struck him down and left him for dead in that little village on the southern coast of Mexico ... He came home, after three years during which everyone thought he was dead. He came home to his magnificent estate, to his beautiful wife, to his good friends. One of them would try again ... " --