That's what drew him to Kiev on Wednesday, and into the path of a sniper's bullet on Thursday.
The quest takes him on a noir chase through library after library, with a chilly but alluring graduate student at his side, a sinister chauffeur at his heels and a glittering trail of money drawing him on.
I was on my way out of a lecture by Menzi Simelane, South Africa's director of public prosecutions, after having tried in vain to draw him on the subject of Julius Malema.
There was little in any of the exchanges as Murray played safe and deep in an effort to tame Stepanek, who tried to draw him on to the counter punch with drop shots and flat, hard crosscourt backhands.
For years it seemed that even its creator had no wish to revisit the thing; snubbing it in his live performances and bristling whenever interviewers attempted to draw him on the subject.
The two took a look at Tapper's old work, and Meyers challenged Tapper to draw him on air.
A neighbor, Charles Ramsey, told local television reporters that a woman's screams drew him to a house on his block.
Move of the week: Gokhan Inler on what drew him to a lucrative contract in England.
Then she put her arms around his back and drew him down on top of her.
I drew him puffing on a post-coital cigarette, full of self-loathing, as his partner promises him a Tory peerage.
