Kasym brings the long-bladed knife up so Chloe can see the orange glow of the passing streetlamps reflected in the polished steel.
But there is more at stake than the lives of two Briti.
It has a very narrow tip and glints viciously along its stone-whetted edge.
So begins the kidnapping that plunges Gabriel Wolfe into a search and rescue mission in the Baltic state of Estonia.
Sarah, Chloe\'s mother, stares open-mouthed at the blade.
She becomes completely still.
It usually does.
The move works.
Kasym brings the long-bladed knife up so Chloe can see the orange glow of the passing streetlamps reflected in the polished steel