it was a great story , all right , and yosef drank on it for the next seven years-until peter was arrested for a hideous crime , judged guilty , and sentenced to imprisonment in the cell atop the needle for the rest of his life 15 perhaps you are wondering what thomas was like , and some of you may already be casting him in a villain 's part , as a willing co-schemer in flagg 's plot to snatch the crown away from its rightful owner .