Here is an unsparing account of the dark underbelly that is Guyana today. It is vast, sophisticated, and treacherous. This is not a place for the squeamish or timid. The villains appear in many forms: government bureaucrats, private workers, friends and family members. They squeeze and extort and terrorize the vulnerable and the poor. This story is of financial loss, emotional trauma, and mental anguish. It is one man’s story that is repeated day after day in countless ways. There is no respite. There is little recourse to law and the redress of justice. It is a public secret that is memorialized for the first time. Some will be angered; others will be embarrassed. Still, the truth must be told. And the chips will fall where they will.