重犯寻踪

　　On _a brisk day in _**!November 1998, a ^doughy balding Brooklyn compu\.
ter sales.man was suppos:ed to r/
epor#t to p+! (r -ison` to be%gin servi 
/n`\,g a 17-year sentence. He r en]?ted )_#a/! ;._For,!d Ta,+@urus. Drove to# Quee !ns t[+o tu*#`.rn in the [ank-le mon #+itor he had_, been!]:] wearing.[ He took (+=_$600 o*ut - of[( ?`an+  ATM. Headed! to JFK airpo@!-r t. And vanish^ed. H[(is .:name was Jo]hn `)Ruf:,fo. The cri!)+me] he had \_^comm itted ]was outlandish. #Using forged ]!docume$nts [=and ;% fake (-[cor+,[ po,)*ra;te @@/seals,. he persuaded;;=@( banks to-  ?].loan him $350 m-=illion!@..\  $He in)vented a nonexi] stent proposition that%.? he cal% l)\%
ed “Project $$@Star” and he$ used the mone$y to gamble # the millions_,`` o`n the stock market, becomi:@;ng one of Wall St!\reet$’s hig%h-roll? +ers. When th?e FBI caught wind of hi=s ;,swindl.?e, they set up a sting. At hi%_s s:+.enten@!c.%@in*g, pro;@secutors made(%# an% ,#un]*thin!+kab@le (mistake. They ag)=reed t!//o let John Ruffo driv%e himself to prison. Wh--/at _%foll=[/owed was one o ?(f !@?the longes,t and `most%?` ch al:l[eng#+#ing manhu?;nts in
the h$(istory of th]e U.S. Marshals Serv ]i ^c%[e. )We discov!er a man w$)hose life was
 (a hall/ _$o\f mir \rors. Se.cret ide=)%nt ities, un:likely af,#)filiations,  and bo+ gus companies -are uncovered. Was he secret[@,[l+y he$);lping an elite unit of FBI spy-hu !nters ;[ lure Soviet scientists: t)o defect -? Did he :#:cut a deal with =the-* mob%%$# /to help..+ h;,im disappear$? Was tha t] him, seated `@/behind ho^_m]e plate at Do$d\ger* Sta ,d\#i^um? -(We jo.(in the chase as the Marshals t$@ry an\d resol^ve a case ;=t
!hat has baffle`
d and bewi/]ldered generat?.
io+ns $::of t)heir colleagues, crossing ],#the globe to )ask+$ . one pressing ^,questi.\+on: H/ave you seen thi,-,;s $,man?