Saint in Vain - Hardcoverby Matthew K. Perkins (Author) If the preservation of your life's work and legacy hinged on your ability to convince a total stranger to kill you, what would you say? Following the terrorist attacks of 9 11, three stranger's lives are forever altered. Silvio loses both of his parents. Vera's newlywed husband, out of a sense of patriotic duty, enlists to deploy to Iraq. And Lewis is a U. S. Army private caught in the middle of the Iraqi war violence.