WHY is the FBI from America investigating a kidnapping 4,000 miles away in Austria? The answer lies in this book. It chronicles the quest of the father of that kidnapping victim - Natascha Kampusch - and the pitfalls that befell him. Ludwig Koch always refused to believe the sanitised version of what happened to the daughter he idolised. His persistence forced an Austrian parliamentary enquiry which in turn led to the FBI being called in. The victim, 10-year-old Natascha Kampusch, was snatched off the street on March 2, 1998, on her way to school from a housing estate on the outskirts of the elegant Austrian capital. She vanished seemingly without trace until the afternoon of August 23, 2006, when she escaped from the house that was part prison, part refuge from a grim childhood home, barely 20 miles from where she was taken.During that time her father forfeited his job, his savings, his health and almost his sanity. He alone kept the faith with his missing daughter while she was in the clutches of the social misfit Wolfgang Priklopil. His ordeal may have been endurable if he could go to his grave with the unconditional love of Natascha. But it is not so. As the days following her escape to freedom dragged into weeks, and the weeks into months, then years, the kaleidoscope of the Kampusch kidnapping saga were continuously shaken and mixed up.Not only were the police discredited in their handling of the case, but the very fabric of Natascha’s re-telling of the tale was found to be tragically flawed. She denied, and continues to deny, what detectives, legal experts and Ludwig Koch now believe to be true. That there was a second man involved in her abduction. Ludwig Koch, who spent 3096 days searching for his daughter, has now committed himself to two things; this book, to tell his side of events, and the law. As you read this, the last chapter still has to be written; the legal finale of his lawsuit against Priklopil's business partner Ernst Holzapfel. The second man. The man he believes helped in the abduction of his beloved daughter.He has gathered 57,000 pages of police evidence to both write this book and bring his legal action. In doing so, he unearthed a sinister conspiracy at the heart of Austrian political life to bury the catastrophic mistakes made in the hunt for the most important person in his life. That is why the FBI, together with the German police, are now tasked with trying to get to the truth of Case Natascha. This is the love story of Ludwig Koch, the love of a father for his child. And the sinister conspiracy of silence and lies which thwarts it.